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Post by Admin on Feb 16, 2023 16:50:01 GMT
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Post by Admin on Feb 21, 2023 18:27:10 GMT
MONTREAL -- The World Anti-Doping Agency has appealed Russian figure skater Kamila Valieva's doping case to the Court of Arbitration for Sport and said Tuesday it is seeking a four-year ban.
WADA is objecting to a finding by a Russian tribunal that Valieva bore "no fault or negligence" in the case, which overshadowed last year's Beijing Olympics. WADA wants a four-year ban and for Valieva's results to be disqualified from the date she gave the sample, Dec. 25, 2021. That would include the Olympics.
A year after the Beijing Games finished, no medal ceremony has taken place for the team competition because of the uncertainty.
WADA said the Russian decision was "wrong under the terms of the World Anti-Doping Code in this case,'' without giving further detail.
The Russian skater, who was then 15, won Olympic gold in the team competition in February before it was announced that a sample she gave two months before tested positive for a banned substance. The result was reported later because the laboratory that tested the sample was affected by the coronavirus pandemic.
Another CAS panel granted an emergency request for Valieva to be allowed to skate in the women's competition at the Olympics, in part because of her age. Valieva was favored for the gold medal but falls in her free skate left her in fourth. She left the venue in tears.
After the Olympics finished, the Russian anti-doping agency took several months to carry out its own investigation and hold hearings. WADA tried to refer the case to CAS in November because of the delays before the Russian agency eventually produced a verdict, which it has not made public.
WADA, which has received a copy, said the Russian tribunal didn't impose a ban and disqualified Valieva from only one day of the 2021 Russian national championships, where the sample was taken.
U.S. Figure Skating said this month that it and its skaters, who placed second behind the Russians in the team event, were "deeply frustrated by the lack of a final decision" on the competition results.
The case put a spotlight on Russia's intensive training system for young skaters and in particular the practices of Valieva's coach, Eteri Tutberidze, who has worked with a series of champion Russian skaters. Tutberidze criticized Valieva as she left the ice in the women's event in Beijing.
Concerns around young skaters' physical and mental health led the International Skating Union to vote last year to raise the minimum age to compete at the Olympics to 17 in time for the next Winter Games in 2026.
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Post by Admin on Feb 23, 2023 5:02:16 GMT
On Tuesday, The World Anti-Doping Agency announced that it will appeal the Russian Anti-Doping Agency’s “wrong" decision on figure skater Kamila Valieva to the Court of Arbitration for Sport, seeking a four-year ban for Valieva and disqualification of all her results since late December 2021, including those from the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics.
WADA said in its announcement that it “will continue to push for this matter to proceed without further undue delay.”
In January, a RUSADA disciplinary tribunal found that while the then-15-year-old Valieva committed an anti-doping rule violation, she bore “no fault or negligence” for it. RUSADA imposed no sanction except for the disqualification of her results on the date the sample was collected, which was Dec. 25, 2021, at the Russian national championships.
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Post by Admin on Feb 23, 2023 23:27:58 GMT
Why didn't the International Skating Union push for CAS to ban Kamila Valieva? Why did Dr. Shvetsky and Tatiana Volosozhar go to China to promote Xenon Gas? Why was Chen Lu present? Has the ISU ever upheld its rules about doping or punished age falsification? Were Sui and Han eligible to any of the gold medals at the World Junior Figure Skating Championships? Why did Alexandra Trusova withdraw from the 2023 Russian Cup Final? Is Irina Viner upholding athlete neutrality? Will the IOC let Russia back for 2024? I break it all down on the latest 'As The Blade Turns'.
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Post by Admin on Mar 7, 2023 18:39:35 GMT
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