Coach Tarasova: it’s pointless to talk about Valieva’s sporting future before the trial
It is pointless to talk about the sports future of Russian figure skater Kamila Valieva before the trial. This is how Honored Coach of the USSR Tatyana Tarasova answered the corresponding question in a conversation with Lenta.ru.
“There will be a trial. Our opinion is not taken into account in court. So why are we just shaking the air?” – said Tarasova.
On September 28, the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) announced that new hearings into Valieva’s doping case would be held on November 9 and 10. The court said it was preparing new documentation for the hearings, which should be studied by all interested parties.
It is known that WADA considered the conclusion of the RUSADA disciplinary committee about the skater’s innocence to be incorrect. WADA considered that the athlete should be suspended for four years, and her results canceled starting from the 2022 Olympic Games in Beijing.
The next hearing in Valieva’s case was held at CAS from September 26 to 29. In addition to WADA and RUSADA, two more parties spoke at the meeting: the figure skater herself and the International Skating Union (ISU).
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.
Source: Lenta
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