Director General of the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) Olivier Niggli has addressed the deadline in Kamila Valieva’s doping case. Figure skating prodigy Valieva helped the Russian Olympic Committee (ROC) win the Team event at the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics and was tipped as the favorite for the individual event. When …
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An investigation conducted by RUSADA, the Russian Anti-Doping Agency, into the circumstances surrounding the positive drug test submitted by teenage figure skater Kamila Valieva in advance of the recent Winter Olympics in Beijing must be completed by August 8, the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) has said. Russian native Valieva, 15, was …
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Russian figure skating coach Eteri Tutberidze has responded to International Olympic Committee (IOC) president Thomas Bach’s suggestion that she treated Kamila Valieva with “tremendous coldness” as the Winter Olympics star left the ice distraught following her final performance at the Beijing Games. Bach, whose organization had announced that it would not hold …
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Former ice dance world champion Alexander Zhulin has said that international sporting authorities will have to live with the consequences of “ruining” Russian star Kamila Valieva’s Olympic dreams after her doping case ordeal in Beijing. What was expected to be Valieva’s crowning triumph in the Chinese capital turned into a nightmare …
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Russian figure skater Kamila Valieva is in first place in the women’s individual event in Beijing after completing an emotional short skate routine on Tuesday. Gold medal favorite Valieva scored 82.16 points for her program, some way off her world record best but still impressive given the immense pressure the …
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The International Olympic Committee (IOC) Executive Board has defended its decision to clear Russian ice skating star Kamila Valieva for competition, saying her explanation of how a banned angina drug could get into her body seemed plausible. Valieva’s positive doping test, which was revealed after she helped her team to …
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Russian figure skater Kamila Valieva has broken her silence after being cleared to compete at the Beijing Winter Olympics, admitting that her doping case ordeal has left her feeling emotionally drained. Valieva will line up for Tuesday’s women’s individual event in Beijing after an emergency hearing at the Court of …
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The International Olympic Committee (IOC) has announced it will not hold the medal ceremony for the women’s individual figure skating event at the Beijing Games if Russian participant Kamila Valieva finishes on the podium. The organization also said it would not be holding the delayed ceremony for the figure skating …
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American Olympic officials have reacted angrily to the news that Russian figure skater Kamila Valieva has been cleared to compete at the Beijing Games, after the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) refused to suspend the teenager in her doping case. After a late-night emergency hearing in Beijing, CAS announced …
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Russian figure skater Kamila Valieva is free to compete at the Beijing Winter Olympics after the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) rejected demands to impose a suspension on the teenager, in a case involving a positive doping sample taken in December. The decision comes just one day before the …
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