[Body Road News]The International Testing Agency (ITA) confirmed on Friday (11th) that 15-year-old Russian figure skating “genius girl” Kamila Valieva (Kamila Valieva) was in a pre-2022 Beijing Winter Olympics. The “fat guy” tested positive for a banned heart drug, Trimetazidine; the ITA appealed to the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) on behalf of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) on the same day, and held an emergency hearing. Opposes the decision of the Russian Anti-Doping Organization (RUSADA) to lift Hua Liva’s temporary ban.
According to reports, Hualiwa was subjected to a drug test following the 2022 Russian Figure Skating Championships held in St. Petersburg, Russia on December 25 last year, a Swedish laboratory accredited by the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) on Tuesday (8th). ) tested the sample for the banned heart drug trimetazidinepositive reactionfollowing the results were released, RUSADA immediately issued a temporary suspension order to the athletes involved, prohibiting the athletes from participating in any events including the Winter Olympics during the temporary suspension order, and the athletes involved were not allowed to participate in competitions, training, guidance or participation during the Winter Olympics. any activity.
Since Hua Liwa is only 15 years old, according to WADA regulations, athletes under the age of 16 will be “protected” and will not officially announce the results of drug tests and the identities of the athletes concerned. On the other hand, since the drug test was conducted by RUSADA before the Winter Olympics, the IOC has no jurisdiction over the case, and the case is not directly handled by the ITA. Hua Liwa appealed to the RUSADA Disciplinary Committee on the temporary suspension order on Wednesday (9th). The committee held a hearing on the same day and decided to lift Hua Liwa’s temporary suspension order in the evening.
According to the World Anti-Doping Code, WADA, the International Skating Union (ISU), RUSADA and IOC have the right to appeal to CAS for the lifting of the temporary suspension order. Since the women’s figure skating individual competition of the Beijing Winter Olympics will be held next Tuesday (15th), in Under the premise that time is pressing, IOC decided not to wait for RUSADA to explain the earlier decision and exercise the right of appeal; the international testing agency will appeal to CAS on behalf of IOC.
Hua Liwa scored 90.18 points in the short program of the women’s figure skating team competition at the Beijing Winter Olympics on Sunday (6th), and she was still unbeatable in the free skating the next day (7th), ranking first with 178.92 points. She completed the quadruple jump twice, becoming the first female figure skater in history to complete this extremely difficult movement in the Olympics, and helped the Russian Olympic Committee win the gold medal.
It is worth mentioning that this CAS emergency hearing will only deal with the lifting of Hualiwa’s temporary suspension order. Whether the gold medal won by the Russian Olympic Committee in the women’s figure skating team competition at the Winter Olympics will be affected? A decision by the ISU will not be made until the case is fully resolved. If the Russian Olympic Committee’s gold medal in the women’s figure skating team event is eventually cancelled, the United States, Japan and Canada, which had finished second, third and fourth, will be promoted to gold, silver and bronze medalists in that order.
Source: Comprehensive foreign media
This article is by “Sportsroad“Originally published in “[Beijing Winter Olympics]Russian genius girl confirms drug test as “fat guy”, IOC appeals to CAS to lift temporary ban」
