15-year-old gold medalist of the Olympics in doping. Russians report

“She’s absolutely mesmerizing,” says former Olympian Johnny Weir. “Honestly? She is a freak of nature,” adds Emma Freedman, sports commentator. I am talking about a 15-year-old Russian figure skater. . Being precise: they were supposed to win, because there was no medal ceremony.

– The ceremony was canceled for legal reasons – explained Mark Adams, spokesman for the IOC. But he did not specifically explain why it happened. An avalanche of guesses has started. According to the website “Inside the Games”, it could have been a test for the presence of drugs or doping in the body, performed before the start of the Beijing Olympics.

It was suspected that a member of the Russian team had been caught in … a twist. Russian Match TV journalist Sergey Lisin said that a possible doping mishap of the Russian figure skater at the Beijing Olympics could be related to the use of marijuana. – Many people write to me that it is marijuana – said Lisin. But it wasn’t marijuana.

The Russian newspaper “RBC” announced on Wednesday that Walijewa fell in because she had been diagnosed with trimetazidine. It is a drug used in ischemic heart disease, it has a cardioprotective effect, i.e. it protects the cells of the heart muscle. WADA (World Anti-Doping Commission) strictly forbids this chemical.

– It doesn’t help the athletes at all. Not at all. A small amount of this compound was found in the December sample. Nothing was detected in the previous and subsequent ones. It’s no cheering. Leave her alone, says Vasily Konov, a Russian journalist. The Russian Olympic Committee previously declined to comment on the reports.

Walijewa was doping? Officially, we’ll never know

Walijewa is not yet 16 years old, so according to the law he is a protected person. This means that even if she breached an anti-doping rule, she could not be officially identified by the competition organizers.

For the second time in history, the Russians won team gold in figure skating (four years ago they won a silver medal in Pyongyang). Silver was won by the United States and bronze by Japan.

Source: Sport

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