The hounds are out for a hunt. Question is - are they gonna be fed with substitute meal or go after great fat bear.
In either case, someone will pay.
Kamila Valieva: Anti-doping Case and Follow-ups
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The hounds are out for a hunt. Question is - are they gonna be fed with substitute meal or go after great fat bear.
In either case, someone will pay.
Based on the statement of the ROC this is the only positive test she's had, I didn't see it mentioned that sample B from the 12/25 date has been tested. But given that all the Beijing doping tests have come back clean and there have been no other tests that have been flagged (my understanding is that every medalist at international competitions are tested, someone correct me if I'm wrong) that does probably give them a case that there might be something accidental with the positive test. Granted given the country she comes from and their history, she might not get the benefit of the doubt, but is there a case to be made and won that given it was the only test that's come back positive and the Beijing test(s) have been clean should Valieva receive a punishment but the punishment not impact the Team results that punishes the other Russian athletes that tested clean - the counter to that is going to be the fairness to the non-Russian skaters.
Its a hot mess, that likely would have been addressed prior to the Olympics, from the latest post on this thread this is another way that covid is screwing up the Olympics.
Yes, based on a post in the thread the lab that was sent the sample in Sweden had a covid outbreak.
Yes, that is what the ITA report says.
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is it 2 months suspension from the day of the test?
and I'm assuming results in the period of more than 2 months might be revoked
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Doesn't mean that was not the intention to use it (whether it works or no)
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If you look at the East German swimmers (which was an EXTREMELY sad story, they were pumped full of steroids unknowingly, have suffered lifelong health problems and some have died very prematurely). They weren't just pumped full of steroids. They were massive amounts of steroids. Athletes also have the right to know what they're being given. I dated a guy who played football at OU in the 80s. They were given shots of "vitamins" that turned out to be steroids and many of them have died prematurely as well.
Health consequences of PEDs continue to plague ex-East German athletes - Global Sport Matters
East German athletes forced to take steroids suffered damage to their bodies. Many are seeking compensation for the continued aftereffects.
globalsportmatters.com
Some things I really don't care about, like if they have been smoking weed, which is not performance enhancing. But WADA didn't ask my opinion. Performance enhancing drugs are cheating, and I'm against cheating.
The point is not if you can get off the couch and be a top athlete. The point is someone who is ALMOST there can get there with PED. See Ben Johnson.
No, it would be two months after a full hearing. That would happen sometime in the future--after the Olympics. In the meantime, the athlete might be provisionally suspended, or not. That is what the CAS is going to decide in Kamila's case.
Rusada works on their own so their is no requirements. But it is of course in their interest to find the guilty adult(s) responsible.
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Yes, it can be from the day of that exact test if later test are negative, like the situation is in this case. Also I know that some athletes, Chinese swimmer served only 3 months suspension, and USA swimmer only 6 months for the same substance they founded in Kamila's sample. So suspension, if happens, can be even lower for the minors.
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If so, there SHOULD have been an exemption filed.
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I also had a misunderstanding there, I thought there were results on the 25th and on the 8th,
but apparently Russia has only been made aware of this on the 8th, which does make me wonder
about their internal testing process, if there even is one.
nobody knew, forumers were speculating calslang had an injury, it was only made public bc by the press after the hearing.
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And as far as results from the time leading up the test and following it, prior to the hearing,
what are usually the decisions?
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The timing is definitely the worst. But if there was tampering/mishandling of her sample/contamination/nefarious plan against Kamila, this is something her team should definitely be on top of. Two months before the Olympics, her being the top athlete of the sport, the best in her country and the world. I have this feeling they might have been overconfident.
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If an athlete was previously on a WADA doping control list and they retire from the sport and then later decide to return to elite competition, they must be back in the testing pool for something like 18 months before they're allowed o compete in an elite international event again. So you'll sometimes hear of athletes say 'My retirement is official; I turned in my WADA paperwork to go off the anti-doping lists'. So Zagitova probably stayed on the list because she wasn't 100% sure of retirement yet.
Because figure skating is not seen as having a doping issue, there is often not a ton of out of competition testing compared to something like athletics or swimming. USADA says they tested Nathan Chen 3 times in 2021 and one of those was probably from Nationals while an elite sprint runner can expect a 'knock on the door' monthly.
As for WADA and their testing, the budget they have can cover testing at major international events but not really much beyond that so they rely on national level anti-doping agencies to police clean sport at the national and sub-national level. It hasn't worked particularly well for the past fifty or so years but not enough countries are willing to pay what would be pretty high prices (Have you priced plane tickets from Switzerland to Magadon or Samoa or St. Helena?) to have them cover a comprehensive national level program in 160+ countries.
I don't know. I know that in some cases--like Jessica Calalang, who was provisionally suspended and could not go to Worlds--athletes are suspended pending a final hearing.
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Correct. Again the article I linked, those athletes are dying of cancer at young ages and suffered from many side effects even giving birth to children with severe birth defects. It is terrible. No medal is worth all that.
Just to be accurate, this press release moved the date up to the 7th(though with timezones who knows): https://rusada.ru/news/press-releas...-v-otnoshenii-figuristki-chlena-komandy-okr-/
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