Three versions of the entry of a prohibited drug into the body of Valieva are listed

The banned substance trimetazidine could enter the body of the Russian figure skater Kamila Valieva in three ways. The versions of Lente.ru were listed by clinical pharmacologist and pathologist Alexander Ediger.

To establish how a particular substance entered the body of a patient or a suspect, it is necessary to work out all possible versions, the clinical pharmacologist shared.

“The first version is that the suspect ate substance X on purpose, someone prescribed it to him, forced or convinced him. Version two – the suspect ate drug X unintentionally, that is, by accident. This is a situation where he did not know that this was drug X. The third version was that no one knew about this drug X. The so-called random situation, when the drug X was in the form of impurities in the composition of some food product or some kind of medicine that the suspect uses, ”he shared, noting that the investigation must take into account both the likelihood of malicious intent and sabotage.

Ediger believes that Valieva hardly tasted grandfather’s pills or ate with him from the same dish, in which trimetazidine somehow ended up. “This is a drug that is produced in coated tablets, no one crushes it, it does not exist in the form of powders, in liquid form,” the clinical pharmacologist explained.

Earlier, the head of the disciplinary commission of the International Olympic Committee (IOC), Denis Oswald, said that trimetazidine was in the body of 15-year-old Valieva through a product that her grandfather used. He noted that this argument played in favor of the skater at a hearing in her doping case in the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS).

The court allowed Valieva to participate in the Olympic Games, she became the leader in the short program, gaining 82.16 points.