The Russian Anti-Doping Agency (RUSADA) is generally correct in the situation with the doping test of the Russian figure skater Kamila Valieva. This was stated to RBC Sport by the former Director General of RUSADA Yuri Ganus.
“Now RUSADA is in a state of non-compliance (in 2019, WADA deprived RUSADA of the status of compliance with the anti-doping code due to database manipulation. - RBC). According to the decision of the CAS [Court of Arbitration for Sport], we will have the next meeting on the performance of Russian athletes under our flag in December. Therefore, this investigation will have a direct impact on this issue,” Ganus said.
Prior to that, he recalled the interest in the situation on the part of the US Anti-Doping Agency (USADA), whose head Travis Tygart had already said that Washington could involve the Russians involved in the Valieva doping case in accordance with the “Rodchenkov act”. “This is a rather difficult situation, primarily a reputational one, from which you need to wisely and correctly get out, so the fact that RUSADA is investigating is right,” Ganus added.
What's important to know about Kamila Valieva's case and her chances to stay at the Olympics The Russian Anti-Doping Agency on Friday announced that it had launched an investigation into figure skater Valieva's staff following 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.
Valieva at the Beijing Olympics won the gold medal in the team figure skaters tournament. 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 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.
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