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Big_Gazza wrote:The Russian national figure skating team won the team tournament at the Olympics

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Winter Olympics 2022: Kamila Valieva ‘at centre of drugs test scandal’ with figure skating medals on hold

BEIJING – Figure skating sensation Kamila Valieva is reportedly at the centre of a drugs scandal that rocked the Beijing Winter Olympic Games on Wednesday.

The Russian Olympic Committee (ROC) team beat Team USA and Japan to gold on Monday but are yet to receive their medals due to what the IOC referred to as an emerging “legal issue”.

A report by InsideTheGames claimed that the hold-up is due to an issue with a drugs test conducted before Beijing 2022 and they subsequently revealed that Valieva, 15, is at the centre of the inquest.

Instead, the issue is understood to be surrounding whether the usage was in-competition, which is banned, or out-of-competition, which is not.

The matter will be dealt with by a team of lawyers as well as the Independent Testing Agency (ITA).

Tatiana Tarasova, who coached some of the biggest names in Russian figure skating but retired in 2006, railed against the allegation that there was any foul play within the camp.

“This cannot be true! We can be pointed fingers at, but we are all clean,” Tarasova said in response to a question regarding the accusations.

https://inews.co.uk/sport/olympics/winter-olympics-2022-kamila-valieva-figure-skating-doping-russia-1452087

WADA calls for Valieva to be suspended

The World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) will challenge Russian figure skating star Kamila Valieva’s right to continue to compete at the Beijing Winter Olympics, after a doping test from the teenager taken in December returned a positive result.

WADA said it will file an appeal to the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) in an attempt to overturn the decision by the Russian Anti-Doping Agency (RUSADA), which allowed the skater to train and compete in Beijing after she successfully appealed against an initial provisional suspension.

"The World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) wishes to confirm that it intends to lodge an appeal with the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) in relation to the anti-doping case involving a Russian Olympic Committee figure skater who tested positive for a prohibited substance in an event prior to the 2022 Olympic Games in Beijing," the statment said.

WADA claimed in its statement that the WADA Code has "not been correctly applied" in the decision to lift Valieva's provisional suspension.

The announcement came after the International Olympic Committee (IOC) and International Skating Union (ISU) also stated their intentions to file appeals to CAS to have a suspension reimposed on Valieva.

Valieva played a pivotal role in the Russian Olympic Committee (ROC) team winning gold in the team figure skating event earlier at the Beijing Games, where they toped the podium ahead of the USA and Japan.

The International Testing Agency (ITA) revealed on Friday that the skater tested positive for banned heart medicine trimetazidine.

The sample was tested at a WADA-accredited lab in Stockholm, which reported the positive result on February 8, a day after Russian skaters won gold in the team event.

https://www.rt.com/sport/549041-valieva-wada-appeal-olympics/

Hole wrote:You mean the white guy in uniform behind Djokovic, right?

On the bench: Nadal, a 300 pound female gorilla, Djokovic.