Russian officers have confronted calls to make data public relating to the determine skater
Russian Anti-Doping Company (RUSADA) president Veronika Loginova has reiterated that the group is underneath no obligation to reveal the small print of the investigation into determine skater Kamila Valieva.
RUSADA has confronted calls in current days from the World Anti-Doping Company (WADA) and the pinnacle of the Worldwide Olympic Committee (IOC), Thomas Bach, to make data publicly accessible relating to Valieva’s case.
The determine skater, then aged 15, was on the heart of a scandal on the Beijing Winter Olympics in February when it emerged that she had examined optimistic for banned coronary heart drug trimetazidine, primarily based on a pattern taken round six weeks previous to the Video games.
RUSADA has been tasked with investigating the circumstances of the optimistic check, and Loginova mentioned final month that the case would transfer to a disciplinary anti-doping committee (DAC) listening to, prone to be held in October.
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The group pressured final week, nonetheless, that it meant to maintain particulars of the case personal, citing Valieva’s standing as a “protected particular person” resulting from her age.
Following outdoors strain, Loginova doubled down on that place in a press launch on Thursday.
“The method of processing the outcomes on this case, in addition to in all instances which can be underneath the jurisdiction of RUSADA, is carried out in strict compliance with Russian and worldwide anti-doping requirements. There have been no violations of the established procedures,” learn an announcement shared by RIA Novosti.
“As a result of dissemination of false data within the press and a lot of requests media for remark, on October 21, RUSADA issued an official assertion that it didn’t intend to voice particulars on this case and reply questions in regards to the listening to.
“In accordance with the requirements, the method was imagined to be confidential from the very starting. The choice to publicly disclose the info on the case after the ultimate resolution is made stays with RUSADA,” added Loginova.
WADA president Witold Banka issued a social media warning on Thursday, stating that the group would take up Valieva’s case with the Court docket of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) in Switzerland “until the matter is resolved promptly.”
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Valieva had already helped the Russian Olympic Committee (ROC) to win gold within the determine skating group occasion in Beijing earlier than her optimistic check was reported. She was cleared by an emergency CAS panel to compete within the particular person occasion, however completed a disappointing fourth regardless of being the robust favourite for gold.
Valieva’s group, which incorporates massively profitable coach Eteri Tutberidze, have denied any wrongdoing. It was urged at their CAS listening to in February that the optimistic pattern – which was taken on the Russian championships on the finish of December – could have come from contamination with coronary heart treatment her grandfather was taking.
Russian officers have additionally acknowledged that Valieva handed quite a few different doping assessments, whereas questions have been requested relating to the size of time it took the WADA-accredited laboratory in Stockholm to report her optimistic pattern.
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Valieva and her compatriots are at present banned from tournaments organized by the Worldwide Skating Union (ISU) due to the battle in Ukraine, though they’re competing at a collection of different Grand Prix competitions of their homeland.
Valieva gained the primary of these in Moscow final weekend, and her new routines embrace robust references to the scandal which overshadowed her time on the Beijing Olympics.
