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Post by Admin on Feb 18, 2022 5:25:11 GMT
Russian figure skater Kamila Valieva will fly from Beijing, where the 2022 Olympics are taking place, to Moscow on Friday, the press service of the Russian Olympic Committee (ROC) reports. The doping test, taken at the end of December, gave Valieva a positive result. The Court of Arbitration for Sport allowed the skater to participate in the individual Olympic tournament in Beijing. However, he postponed the award ceremony if Valieva gets into the top three, until the end of the investigation into the Russian figure skater. On Thursday at the Olympics in women's single skating, Russians Anna Shcherbakova (255.95 points) and Alexandra Trusova (251.73) won gold and silver, while Japanese Kaori Sakamoto (233.13) became third. Valieva, who was in the lead after the short program, took fourth place (224.09). It is reported that Valieva will fly to Moscow on flight SU 205, which will arrive at Sheremetyevo Airport at 14:50 Moscow time.
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Post by Admin on Feb 18, 2022 21:43:39 GMT
As The Blade Turns: Kamila Valieva's Grandfather (Russian Doping Scandal, Eteri Tutberidze) 34,267 views • Feb 17, 2022 • As The Blade Turns: Kamila Valieva's Grandfather (Russian Doping Scandal, Eteri Tutberidze)
A sample provided by a teenage Russian figure skater to an antidoping laboratory before the Beijing Games included three substances that are sometimes used to help the heart, according to a document filed in her arbitration hearing on Sunday.
The skater, Kamila Valieva, was cleared to continue competing in the Games by a panel of arbitrators on Monday even though a drug found in her system, trimetazidine, is on the list of drugs banned by global antidoping officials. Valieva, 15, provided the sample in December, but Russian antidoping officials said they had learned of her positive result only last week.
But according to documents reviewed by The New York Times and confirmed by someone who took part in the hearing, the Stockholm laboratory that carried out the examination of Valieva’s sample also found evidence of two other substances that can treat the heart but are not on the banned list. Valieva even listed them, Hypoxen and L-carnitine, on a doping control form.
The presence of trimetazidine in Valieva’s system may have been a mistake, Russian and Olympic officials have suggested. But the discovery of several substances in the sample of an elite athlete, especially one as young as Valieva, was highly unusual, according to a prominent antidoping official.
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Post by Admin on Feb 19, 2022 11:51:05 GMT
The athletes arrived at Sheremetyevo on a direct flight from Beijing. The plane took off for the Russian capital with a two-hour delay. Short trackers Semyon Yelistratov and Konstantin Ivliev, who took 3rd and 2nd places at distances of 1,500 m and 500 m, respectively, and freestyler Ilya Burov, bronze medalist of the Games in ski acrobatics, were also among those who arrived.
The Russian curling teams also returned to Moscow, the men's team took eighth place in the Olympic tournament, the women's team took tenth, Russian short track skaters Anna Vostrikova, Ekaterina Efremenkova, Sofya Prosvirnova, Vera Rasskazova, Elena Seregina, Denis Hayrapetyan, Daniil Eybog, Pavel Sitnikov.
On February 17, Valieva placed fourth in the singles competition at the Olympic Games. The 15-year-old figure skater will not participate in demonstration performances. Anna Shcherbakova became the Olympic champion, Alexandra Trusova took the second place.
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Post by Admin on Feb 19, 2022 18:09:25 GMT
Russian Figure Skating Champion Shcherbakova Thanks Chinese Fans for Support 905 views • Feb 18, 2022 • Russian figure skating world champion Anna Shcherbakova has thanked her Chinese fans for their warm support at the Beijing Winter Olympics.
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Post by Admin on Feb 19, 2022 23:57:02 GMT
Examining the 'ugly moments' from the Russian figure skating controversy 107,101 views • Feb 19, 2022 • This is the closing weekend of the Winter Olympics, which have in many ways been overshadowed by larger concerns, such as China's human rights record and doping allegations. We take a closer look at the controversies surrounding this year's Games, including the conduct of the Russian squad. Stephanie Apstein, of Sports Illustrated, joins Lisa Desjardins to discuss.
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