There are no similarities between the doping cases of Russian figure skater Kamila Valieva and American track and field athlete Sha'Karri Richardson, who caught marijuana before the Tokyo Games, said IOC communications director Mark Adams. His words are quoted by Match TV.

“Each case is individual and different from the other. In Ms Richardson's case, her test was discovered on June 19, and the result was received before the start of the Games. Her participation in the competition was suspended for a month, so there is no similarity between the two stories,” said Adams.

Earlier, Richardson expressed outrage at the decision of the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) to allow Valiyeva to the Olympics, despite a positive doping test.

“Can we get a clear answer about the difference between her situation and mine? My mother died and I can't run even though I could have been in the top 3. The only difference I see is that I'm a black girl," Richardson wrote on Twitter.

The Minister of Sports called the CAS decision on the Valium Olympics 2022 "the only correct" decision. An American woman passed a positive test for tetrahydrocannabiol metabolites, which indicated a recent use of marijuana, and received a one-month ban from the US Anti-Doping Agency. The suspension of the athlete expired after the start of the Tokyo Games, but she did not get into the national team.

Valieva at the end of December 2021 passed a positive doping test for trimetazidine. The test results became known after the end of the team figure skating competition at the Olympics, in which the Russian team with Valieva won.

Valieva leads after the short program in the individual figure skaters' tournament.

The Russian Anti-Doping Agency (RUSADA) imposed a temporary suspension on the athlete, which was lifted by the agency's disciplinary committee the next day. The IOC, the International Skating Union (ISU) and the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) filed appeals against the skater's admission to the Games, but the CAS exit panel took the side of RUSADA and allowed Valieva to compete in the individual tournament.

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