Banned Russian figure skater Kamila Valieva blamed her positive doping test on a strawberry dessert her grandfather prepared on a cutting board, which he used to weigh it down, the Court of Arbitration for Sport revealed on Wednesday. Broken pills.
CAS announced the arbitration ruling on Wednesday, setting out the reasons for imposing a four-year doping ban on Valiyeva in January.
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Trimetazidine (TMZ) was found in samples taken by Valiyeva during the Russian National Championships in December 2021, and the highest court in sports ruled that Valiyeva was guilty of anti-doping rules (ADRV). Valyeva found herself at the center of a doping scandal when she was just 15 after testing positive during the 2022 Winter Olympics.
Kass said Valieva claimed in her submission that banned substances entered her body by eating desserts prepared by her grandfather on a wooden board, which he used to crush pills containing TMZ, a drug used to prevent angina. Drug.
“The Cas panel found that this explanation was not corroborated by any concrete evidence and that the athlete was unable to prove that she did not intentionally commit ADRV,” the court said. Cass went on to say that since Valieva, now 17, failed to prove ADRV was not committed intentionally and the standard of “no gross negligence or negligence” was not met, so there was no reason to treat her any differently from an adult athlete.
Since the date of the crime, all of Valyeva’s competitive results have been invalidated, including the gold medal she helped the Russian Olympic Committee win in the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics team competition. Russia said it would appeal the decision to strip the Republic of China of its medals.
