Can only think about how Rusfed would have covered the suspension with some injury, if the test was done within 10 days as usual. Since she's under 16, the suspension could have have been confidential. She wouln't have competed at euros, her suspension could have been really short and most importantly, her image could have been saved.
Their job isn't to prove whether she is benefitting or not. More likely their job is to prove if she took the banned substance knowingly or not.
Strongly disagree. The only way to let her compete if they can prove that the test was in fact a false positive or there is strong evidence. If this is the criteria for getting away with suspension then it will be too easy to get away with doping when it actually happens and it will keep those motivated to continue because they are not getting caught even with cases like this. Those who use doping will do everything to find the loopholes where it´s most likely that you won´t be caught. That you can´t find traces of doping afterwards doen´t mean they are not using it, but it could mean they know how to not get detected. This is why it has to be so strict, all though it will be horrible for the person under investigation if the person turns out to be temporary suspended but get´s cleared later.
Where did you get the information that Estonia sent the samples from EC to the same lab in Sweden? I thought Estonia could analyze in their own country.
Yes, it would be the ISU that did that test, it's completely different than a sample taken by RUSADA. Completely different lab and different doping agency.
No axes to grind. In other cases sure but Raducan was not banned at all just her results when the drug was in her system were nullified. Valieva is 15 so if she unknowingly took it I hope it's the same for her. And I'm happy for the rules to be changed but looking at the rules currently, if Valieva herself took it unknowingly it means No Significant Fault or Negligence end of. So then I don't like the idea of her being suspended for that long. This is my view.
I also think that's something that would have happened it would have been a quiet suspension and she may have had that removed and going to the Olympics where she's tested negative for all we know as well as that Europeans and every other complication she's ever had.
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Well at the end there always have to be a way how to link a sample to a person. It is the same with "double-blinded" scientific studies. There has to be a way how to minimize the possibility of infliencing the result (e.g. when a medicine is tested, the workers who applicate the substance do not know whether they are applicating the effecive substance or placebo), while there always has to be a result that can be evaluated (aka there has to be a knowledge which patient accepted an effective substance ort placebo). In all this there are levels of quality, many studies were devaluated precisely because of insufficient level of impartiality.
I don´t like the idea either but if someone other in her Team put her up to it´s still not ok for her to compete. If it´s a false positive it would be very bad for her to miss her potensial OGM. But you can´t know that and the alternative scenario is that she will be compete and then be suspended afterwards when the investigation is done, and the others athletes would have missed an Olympic podium experience. And the justice to other athletes should be emphasized in cases like this.
Agreed, I am wondering about that too. It would be weird if everyone's sample came back earlier except for Valieva's.
I think if that was the case we would already know it by now... No way TASS or some other Russian media outlet would not have let us know.
Well, since WADA follows 'presumption of guilt' rule I find it reasonable to follow the same principle. It is not me who have to prove that they are guilty, it is they have to prove their 'scientific innocence'.
I mean then it enters into the subjective realms of "how you feel"...the idea of it not being ok. It's going to play a factor since there could be a caution and upto 2 years defo. Also let's remember anytime between 6 weeks and less for a ban would clear her for the Olympics. Sun Yang it was only 3 months.
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