Kamila Valieva: Anti-doping Case and Follow-ups

[Wafflecakes]

2 / The evening of Feb. 9, RUS Anti-Doping lifted the provisional suspension. IOC has exercised its right to appeal decision to lift suspension to Court of Arbitration for Sport. CAS expected to render decision before women SP on Tuesday.

Well at least the IOC is appealing. We will see if truth wins out.

 

[Vlad Karigov]

So apparently at the press conference we were told to refer to the statement from the organisation quoted in these Tweets


This is an utter disaster and I thought RUSADA wasn't allowed to run the testing program and they needed to have outsiders administering and doing the testing.

Like RUSADA were the ones who had were accused of tampering back at Sochi. The only way the ROC athletes had any protections from being accused of cheating was that the doping tests were being done by neutral parties.

But RUSADA was the one who got the positive test and to the surprise of no-one lifted Kamila's ban! They didn't report it immediately to WADA and basically swept it under the rug! They probably didn't even bother to let Kamila know, just her coaching team and RudFed I imagine. Who then stopped giving the drug to Kamila and never even told her what was happening.

That's horrific.

Learn to read

Timeline

-Sample taken dec 25 by RUSADA
-Test results given feb 8th 22. she tests positive. RUSADA suspends her.
-Valieva appeals ASAP. RUSADA lifts suspension on feb 9th.
-IOC has appealed the lifted suspension.

It is with this with what all the scandal explodes, at Valieva, nothing was detected in Beijin, yet, and I suppose he waits for that result to continue competing, besides waiting for the sample B of December 25th.

 

[soccerjc77]

No, Valieva already used her spot.

If they disqualified Kamila from the team event isn't it like she didn't compete at all ? And make a spot to Elizaveta Tultamysheva in individual event, just wondering ?

 

[Amei]

If I'm reading the timeline correctly, some things are starting to make sense.

She tested at Russian nationals on Christmas Day.

The test results weren't delivered until Feb 8.

Kamilla had already skated the Team SP and LP on Feb 6 and Feb 7.

This explains how she was able to skate at Europeans and in the Team Event without incident. Those events had taken place before the positive test had been returned.

I need a fact-check that I've gotten the timeline correct.

That is my interpretation. All in all just bad timing for a lot of people.

IOC is appealing the lifted suspension and says they will get a response by the 15th, which is the day of the ladies SP.

One thing I don't understand is how an athlete's country can lift a ban on a positive doping test, like that power shouldn't sit with the country the athlete represents, like how does WADA think a country would handle it.

 

[ks777]

I am starting to wonder how Russian skaters are able to do those very difficult quad jumps.. No other countries are really doing them but Russia, so many of them are able to do them..... how???

 

[drivingmissdaisy]

If they disqualified Kamila from the team event isn't it like she didn't compete at all ? And make a spot to Elizaveta Tultamysheva in individual event, just wondering ?

I think it's too late for Liza to make it over, regardless of whether she is eligible or not.

 

[soccerjc77]

I am starting to wonder how Russian skaters are able to do those very difficult quad jumps.. No other countries are really doing them but Russia, so many of them are able to do them..... how???

Drug look like maybe the answer of this question.

 

[Amei]

Wait.....there's a mistake. They said 2020...

I noticed that as well

 

[TontoK]

Valieva competed in the Team event even if they DQ her results, I don't know how they justify letting an alternate come in.

I think you're right, but I selfishly wish you weren't.

 

[Wafflecakes]

Man this is going to hold all the team medalists hostage for weeks if not months.

CAS is not even close to hearing that case. The case on hand is ONLY her provisional suspension.

 

[PyeongChang2018]

Is this one test the only positive result of hers? Previous ones were negative? If ones from Beijing are negative too, then I can't imagine the trimetazidine is still affecting her performance but what do I know about drugs?

 

[soccerjc77]

Eteri drama continue

 

[gsk8]

I posted the press release in it's entirety to the OP.

 

[draqq]

What a bewildering timeline... Why did it take so long for RUSADA to announce the provisional ban (more than a month of time)? While I'm not surprised that RUSADA lifted the provisional ban (or they would be politically doomed), the IOC's appeal needs to be swift. Though, I'm unclear why the IOC needs to appeal anyway; shouldn't they have jurisdiction over their own event? The ISU will also need to act on this information, now that they know Kamila competed in multiple events with this positive drug test. What a mess all the way around.

 

[alexocfp]

I am starting to wonder how Russian skaters are able to do those very difficult quad jumps.. No other countries are really doing them but Russia, so many of them are able to do them..... how???

Drug look like maybe the answer of this question.

The real answer is that they are elite athletes with elite coaching and elite facilities.

A few micrograms of a drug don’t make you jump quads or even be an elite athlete.

 

[Amei]

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"and the athlete is prevented from competing, training, coaching, or participating in any activity, during the Olympic Winter Games"

And she had a training session on 10 February...

Well if you read the report, they rescinded the ban on the 9th, IOC is appealing that lifted ban. (Why the country that an athlete represents can control an international suspension for a positive doping test is a monumental level of stupid)

 

[NaVi]

I would argue that the fact that Russia can't test their own samples because they manipulated testing data isn't exactly a ringing endorsement of their innocence either.

I'm assuming guilt for Kamila...

but WADA needs to be playing things straight and not trying to blackball for maximum damage and humiliation. I don't know if they are doing that but it needs to be questioned. It is worth questioning what other pre-Olympic samples haven't been processed yet considering the length it has taken for these results(6 1/2 weeks) to come back. You would think to ensure a clean Olympic games that samples would be streamlined and prioritized so it doesn't take this long.

 

[Wafflecakes]

Is this one test the only positive result of hers? Previous ones were negative? If ones from Beijing are negative too, then I can't imagine the trimetazidine is still affecting her performance but what do I know about drugs?

Doesn't matter one iota to the rules. The rule isn't "don't dope close to competition".... it is don't dope.

If they helped her training in the off season, and that carries on throughout the season. Even though, as I said, it doesn't actually matter to the rules.

 

[Vlad Karigov]

I suppose the Russian Federation will ask for the outcome of its test of its events in the short and free of February 6 and 7, which are the closest to the Event of Teams than the of December 25, to exit negative, Russia maintains His golden, because there is no trace of doping.

But if Test B of December 25 is still positive, goodbye career of Valieva, she will be expelled immediately from China...

 

[Pereiro]

I am starting to wonder how Russian skaters are able to do those very difficult quad jumps.. No other countries are really doing them but Russia, so many of them are able to do them..... how???

Yeah, lets ban those famous dopers Liu and Kihira too, right? This is what you assuming?