Figure skater Kamila Valieva will take part in the CAS hearings in Lausanne via video link
Russian figure skater Kamila Valieva will take part in the hearings of the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) via video link. This is reported on the organization’s website.
The hearings will take place on September 26, 27 and 28 at the CAS headquarters in Lausanne (Switzerland). The arbitrators will consist of Englishman James Drake, American Geoffrey Mishkin and Frenchman Matthew Maisonneuve. Valieva demands that the gold of the 2022 Russian Championship be returned to her and her results not be annulled.
In January, the Russian Anti-Doping Agency’s disciplinary committee, a body independent from the main organization, informed the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) of Valieva’s innocence. At the same time, the skater was deprived of gold at the 2022 Russian Championship. Later, the International Skating Union and WADA filed appeals with CAS, which called for the athlete to be disqualified and her results annulled. Hearings on the case will take place from September 26 to 29.
At the 2022 Olympic Games, Valieva won gold in the team competition, but the Russian team was 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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