Kamila Valieva of Team ROC skates throughout a figure skating training session on day 8 of the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympic Games at Capital Indoor Stadium practice rink on February 12, 2022 in Beijing, China.
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Russian figure skater Kamila Valieva will learn Monday if she can skate in the Winter Olympics ladies’s competitors, which begins a day later on.
The Court of Arbitration for Sport revealed Saturday that the expedited hearing on Valieva’s doping case will be held Sunday night in Beijing, with a judgment by Monday afternoon.
The 15- year-old skater, the preferred to win the gold medal, broke down in tears after a psychological session Saturday.
Valieva’s status at the Olympics ended up being uncertain after she checked favorable for the prohibited heart medication, trimetazidine, in Russia inDecember She won a gold medal in the group occasion 5 days earlier, prior to the test outcome was understood, and is set up to complete as a person Tuesday.
Valieva fell throughout practice on a triple axel– a dive she generally performs without an issue– while doing a review of her brief program. She later on landed 2 combinations, a triple flip-triple toe loop and a triple lutz-triple toe loop prior to skating to the boards and offering her coach, Eteri Tutberidz e, a psychological hug.
Earlier Saturday, the greatest court in sports verified it has actually gotten appeals from both the International Olympic Committee and the World Anti-Doping Agency tough Valieva’s right to complete.
The Russian Anti-Doping Agency provided her an automated restriction after checking favorable. A day later on, RUSADA raised the provisionary restriction. The IOC submitted an immediate appeal, which the Court of Arbitration of Sport will hear Sunday.
“It was sending a signal that we want this solved as quickly as it can be,” IOC spokesperson Mark Adams.
The legal procedure is uncommonly complicated since of Valieva’s status as a small, which offers her defenses in the anti-doping guideline book.
Because Valieva is just 15, her supreme charge might be just a reprimand. Her entourage of coaches and physicians deal with more analysis since the World Anti-Doping Code mandates they are instantly put under examination.
Valieva checked favorable in a sample provided onDec 25, when she won the Russian championship games.
That sample was the obligation of the Russian Anti-Doping Agency, referred to as RUSADA. It was sent out to a WADA-approved lab in Stockholm, Sweden, for analysis.
On Monday– hours after Valieva’s skating assisted the Russians win the Olympic group occasion– the Stockholm laboratory alerted RUSADA the test was favorable.
The CAS panel of 3 judges will think about just the demand to re-impose the interim restriction on Valieva.
Whether the Russian group keeps the gold medal in the group occasion will be chosen later on.
The complete examination of the doping case is for RUSADA to deal with and might take months. That might likewise be attracted CAS.
