Despite a positive control to a prohibited substance less than two months before the Beijing Games, the Russian disciplinary court had considered that the skater had committed “no fault or negligence”.
by Jérôme Porier (with AFP)
The scandal had rocked the Winter Olympic Games in Beijing in February 2022. Positive controlled to a prohibited substance before the Chinese appointment, when she was only 15 years old, the Russian skater Kamila Valieva had nevertheless participated in the team and individual tests. The World Anti -Doping Agency (AMA) announced, Tuesday, February 21, having seized the Sports Arbitral Tribunal in this case.
Despite its positive control, the Russian skater had been sanctioned by the Russian anti -doping agency only by the cancellation of its results on the date of the levy, on December 25, 2021. The Russian disciplinary court estimated that the skater had committed “no fault or negligence”.
Through this call to the jurisdiction of Lausanne, the AMA claims a four -year suspension from the date of the sample of the Russian skater. The global anti -doping gendarme also requires the cancellation of all the adolescent results. 2> in tears at the foot of the podium
The positive control of Kamila Valieva was revealed in February 2022, during the Beijing Games. The teenager had won Olympic gold in the team test under the banner of the Russian Olympic Committee, before it was announced only a sample, taken less than two months earlier, had been tested positive for the trimetazidine, A prohibited substance.
The laboratory which was to analyze the sample had been affected by the Pandemic of COVID-19, which had delayed its exam. No medal ceremony had taken place in this discipline in Beijing due to the doubts surrounding the performance of the young Russian skater, pending the results of the investigation into her case. The United States, which was second, could ultimately recover gold.
Before the announcement of this positive control, Kamila Valieva was a favorite for the individual title. Pure product of the factory at champion of the severe coach Eteri Tutberidze, in Moscow, she made the first quadruple female jumps in Olympic history in Beijing. After having dominated the short program in a weighing climate, she collapsed in the free program to finally finish in tears, at the foot of the podium (4 e ).