The lawyer said that postponing the hearings in Valieva’s case will play in her favor
Sports lawyer Sergei Alekseev found advantages in the decision of the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) to postpone the hearing in the case of Russian figure skater Kamila Valieva. KP Sport reports this.
“The fact that the court thoroughly conducts the judicial investigation and is attentive to the process is only in favor of Valieva. If there was a prepared draft political decision, everything would happen quickly,” he said. Alekseev added that the transfer is a standard procedure, since decisions are not always made in 2-3 days.
On September 28, CAS postponed the hearing on Valieva’s doping case. New meetings 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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