Situations like the one that happened with the doping test of Kamila Valieva occur constantly in figure skating, and the risk that strict penalties will be applied to the skater is low. This opinion of RBC Sport was expressed by the Olympic champion in speed skating and State Duma deputy Svetlana Zhurova.
“Situations like with Camila arise in every country with certain drugs that are needed for treatment. I don't think there will be anything serious for her [Valiyeva]. Athletes with such microdoses can easily go further. In most cases, the athlete is justified, ”said Zhurova.
Those who worked with Valieva will be checked because of a doping test. The main thing at the Olympics Olympics 2022 However, she did not make predictions about how the current situation could develop. “Perhaps, for prevention, the athlete would have been suspended a little. But now I don't know how it can go. Such situations have always been in figure skating. Mostly it ended with small suspensions. Never ended in universal scandal. Previously, I would not have worried about this, ”said the interlocutor of RBC Sport.
Zhurova also suggested that the scandal surrounding the Valieva test would not affect the timing of the return of the Russian team to performances under the national flag.
“If anabolic steroids were found on her [Valiyeva], I doubt that there would be a chance to return the anthem and the flag. And so it’s not even a fact that she can be removed from the competition. If this situation had been ten years ago, it would most likely end quietly tomorrow, ”added Zhurova.
The former head of RUSADA praised the agency's actions in the history of Valieva's test. The 2022 Olympics Valieva won the gold medal in the figure skating team tournament as part of the Russian national team at the Beijing Olympics. The competition took place on February 7th. The award ceremony was supposed to take place on the same day, but it has already been postponed several times. On February 9, the Inside the Games portal reported that Valieva's doping test was the reason for the delay in the award.
On February 8, Valieva was suspended. From that moment on, she had no right to participate in Russian and international competitions until the final decision on the case. The following day, the RUSADA Disciplinary Anti-Doping Committee lifted her provisional suspension. This move was challenged by the International Olympic Committee (IOC), the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) and the International Skating Union (ISU).
On Friday, February 11, the International Doping Testing Agency (ITA) announced that a laboratory in Stockholm had indeed detected a banned substance in a sample taken on December 25 in Russia. Trimetazidine was found in the analyzes. At the same time, the Russian Anti-Doping Agency announced that it had launched an investigation into the staff of the figure skater Valieva after her positive doping test.
Valieva’s staff can include not only the figure skater’s coaching staff, headed by Eteri Tutberidze, and doctors, but also the entire staff of the Khrustalny rink (skaters from the Tutberidze team train there) and the Russian national figure skating team who had contacts with the skater.
On December 17, 2020, the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) published its decision on the dispute between the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) and the Russian Anti-Doping Agency (RUSADA). According to the CAS decision, Russian athletes cannot compete in major international competitions under the Russian flag until December 16, 2022. The use of the national anthem, national emblems or symbols is also prohibited.
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