Problems in the athlete testing system have led the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) to try to punish an innocent figure skater, Washington Post journalist Sally Jenkins said in an article about Russian woman Kamila Valieva

“The criminalization of 15-year-old Valieva is a moral catastrophe brought about by the pseudo-puritan tricks of the anti-doping movement with their “zero tolerance”. This led to the conviction of the innocent. There is no conclusive evidence that trace amounts of trimetazidine gave Valieva an added benefit or that she deliberately took it. This case should be simple. The testing system screwed up, and there is no reason to punish Valieva, ”wrote Jenkins.

The journalist noted that in the medical literature there is very little evidence that trimetazidine can somehow affect athletes, and compared it with meldonium, on which WADA did not receive enough scientific information before banning.

The judge from the United States, who removed the Russians from the 2016 Olympics, will decide the fate of Valieva. The 2022 Olympics The Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) on February 13 will consider the issue of the further participation of 15-year-old Valieva in the Beijing Olympics. At the end of December 2021, the Russian woman passed a positive doping test for trimetazidine. According to RBC Sport sources, we are talking about a small amount of a prohibited substance.

The test results were transmitted by the laboratory in Stockholm after the end of the team tournament at the Olympics, which was won by Russian skaters, including Valiev.

The Russian Olympic Committee stated that all subsequent samples of the skater were negative.

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