The determine skater discovered herself on the middle of a storm on the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics
The Russian Anti-Doping Company (RUSADA) has accomplished its investigation into the optimistic pattern returned by determine skater Kamila Valieva and is making ready formal paperwork for a listening to on the case, officers have confirmed.
“The investigation has been concluded,” RUSADA mentioned in an announcement on Wednesday. “The following step is for the outcomes processing division, it’s making ready paperwork for hearings within the DAK (anti-doping disciplinary committee), in accordance with established guidelines and procedures.”
Valieva, 16, was caught up in a doping scandal on the Beijing Winter Olympics in February, when it was reported that she had returned a optimistic outcome for the banned hear drug trimetazidine from a pattern taken on the Russian nationwide championships in December.
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Valieva had already competed in Beijing earlier than the information of the optimistic pattern emerged, having starred because the Russian Olympic Committee (ROC) gained gold within the determine skating crew occasion.
The Worldwide Olympic Committee (IOC), World Anti-Doping Company (WADA) and Worldwide Skating Union (ISU) all sought to forestall Valieva – who was 15 on the time – from competing within the ladies’s particular person occasion in Beijing, however she was cleared to take action after an emergency Court docket of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) listening to dominated in her favor.
Regardless of being the recent favourite for gold and the world report factors holder for her routines, Valieva completed a disappointing fourth within the particular person occasion because the ordeal took its toll.
The skater and her crew, which incorporates famend coach Eteri Tutberdize, have constantly denied wrongdoing, arguing that the optimistic pattern might have resulted from contamination from treatment the skater’s grandfather was taking.
They’ve additionally argued that Valieva handed quite a few different doping checks, whereas questions have been raised as to why the WADA-accredited laboratory in Sweden which analyzed her pattern took so lengthy to report the outcomes.
RUSADA has since been charged with finishing an investigation into the case, with WADA saying in July that it was “monitoring” the state of affairs because it awaited the conclusions.
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The prizewinners from the crew occasion in Beijing – the place the USA gained silver and Japan completed third – are nonetheless ready to be awarded their medals after the scandal surrounding Valieva meant that the ceremony for the competitors was postponed.
