2023-11-10 20:09:53
The Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) will deliver its opinion on the case of Russian skater Kamila Valieva, whose positive test was revealed during the Beijing Olympics in 2022, at the end of January 2024, it announced on Friday.
The panel, which heard the final arguments this Friday, “will now deliberate” and will announce its decision and the reasons to the parties “by the end of January 2024”, specifies the press release.
Valieva was 15 years old in 2022 and due to her age should have been given complete confidentiality, according to the rules of the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA). But the fact that the positive sample, taken in 2021, was revealed during the Olympics and after Valieva’s victory in the team event, thanks to the first women’s quadruple jump in the history of the Games, gave the case a great impact.
A tiny concentration of trimetazidine, banned by WADA since 2014 because it is suspected of promoting blood circulation, was found in the young skater.
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