CAS disqualifies figure skater Kamila Valieva for four years for doping
The Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) has issued a verdict in the case of Russian figure skater Kamila Valieva. This is reported on the organization’s website.
The athlete was disqualified for four years. The period is calculated from December 25, 2021. Thus, Valieva will be deprived of gold for winning the team tournament at the 2022 Olympic Games in Beijing as part of the Russian team.
Hearings in Valieva’s case were held at CAS from September 26 to 28 and from November 9 to 10, 2023. Four parties were heard: the skater herself, the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA), the International Skating Union (ISU) and the Russian Anti-Doping Agency (RUSADA).
In January 2023, the RUSADA disciplinary committee, which is a body independent from the main organization, informed WADA of Valieva’s innocence. At the same time, the skater was deprived of gold at the 2022 Russian Championship. Later, the ISU and WADA filed appeals with CAS, which called for the athlete to be disqualified and her results annulled.
At the 2022 Olympic Games in Beijing, Valieva won gold in the team tournament, but the winners – the teams of Russia, the USA and Japan – were not awarded due to the 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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