USADA head Tygart: postponing hearings on Valieva’s case – Russian manipulation
The Director General of the United States Anti-Doping Agency (USADA) Travis Tygart spoke about the postponement of hearings in the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) in the case of Russian figure skater Kamila Valieva. His words are quoted by USA Today.
“We are for full and unconditional due process, but this all smacks of Russian manipulation,” Tygart said. He believed that the system should change so that doping stories would not be repeated.
On September 28, the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) postponed the hearing on Valieva’s doping case. New hearings in the athlete’s case will be held on November 9 and 10.
At the 2022 Olympic Games in Beijing, Valieva won gold in the team competition, but the Russian team was not awarded due to a doping scandal involving her. Traces of the banned drug trimetazidine were found in the skater’s sample from December 2021. At the same time, CAS allowed her to participate in the individual tournament, where she took fourth place.
Source: Lenta
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