Kamila Valieva: World Anti-Doping Company refers Russian determine skater's case to Court docket of Arbitration for Sport

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The World Anti-Doping Company (WADA) has referred the case of Russian determine skater Kamila Valieva to the Court docket of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) after deeming the Russian Anti-Doping Company (RUSADA) has made no progress on the skater’s Winter Olympics doping case.

In an announcement on Tuesday, WADA President Witold Bańka stated: “Regardless of placing RUSADA beneath formal discover to resolve the Kamila Valieva case promptly, no progress was made. Subsequently, I can verify WADA has now formally referred it on to the Court docket of Arbitration for Sport.”

CAS had no remark when requested if it had obtained WADA’s referral however stated it “will publish a media launch as soon as the attraction has been obtained and registered.”

Muricas News has reached out to RUSADA for remark.

Valieva, who's now 16, was suspended by RUSADA the day after she guided the Russian Olympic Committee (ROC) to victory within the group occasion at Beijing 2022, throughout which she grew to become the primary girl to land a quadruple soar within the Winter Olympics.

She had examined constructive for a banned substance – the guts remedy trimetazidine, which might improve endurance – in December 2021. However the outcomes of the failed December drug check solely got here to mild in the course of the Olympics when it was analyzed and reported to RUSADA.

Valieva has not publicly defined the constructive check outcomes.

The IOC’s disciplinary committee has stated that Valieva blamed the constructive check on a mix-up together with her grandfather’s medicine, as she stated he makes use of trimetazidine for his coronary heart situation.

In October, RUSADA stated in an announcement that it had accomplished its investigation however was holding the ultimate decision of a case involving a determine skater, who's a member of the Russian Olympic Committee and a “protected individual,” confidential.

WADA responded to that RUSADA assertion in October by noting that “WADA will not be a celebration to this case however because it all the time does, WADA will evaluate the end result of the tribunal and reserves the correct to lodge an attraction with the Court docket of Arbitration for Sport, if applicable.”

On the time, the Worldwide Olympic Committee (IOC) stated it anticipated RUSADA to adjust to the WADA code and to deal with the case swiftly to permit the Worldwide Skating Union “to outline the particular outcomes of the determine skating group competitors on the Olympic Winter Video games Beijing 2022 and the IOC to determine on the medal allocation.”

Muricas News has reached out to the IOC for remark.

Group USA completed second within the group occasion, Japan third and Canada in fourth. On account of the doping controversy, no medal ceremony was held in the course of the Video games.