Russian figure skater Valieva's doping case resumes

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GENEVA : The Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) is due to resume hearing the doping case of figure skater Kamila Valieva on Thursday, a saga that rattled last year's Beijing Olympics and cast a shadow over Russia's already troubled anti-doping system.

FILE PHOTO: 2022 Beijing Olympics - Figure Skating - Women Single Skating - Short Program - Capital Indoor Stadium, Beijing, China - February 15, 2022. Kamila Valieva of the Russian Olympic Committee in action. REUTERS/Aleksandra Szmigiel/File Photo

Valieva tested positive for the banned substance trimetazidine, designed to prevent angina, at the Russian national championships in December 2021 when she was 15. Her team has said the positive test could have been due to a mix-up with her grandfather's heart medication. The delay in the medal allocation has angered competitors, with Vincent Zhou, one of the skaters on the silver medal-winning U.S. team, saying that the global anti-doping system was"failing athletes".

 

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