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WADA blame RUSADA for failing to mark Valieva’s sample as priority for long delay in testing

  • Beijing 2022

The World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) has claimed the Russian Anti-Doping Agency (RUSADA) did not flag

Panel had highlighted "serious issues of untimely notification of the results of the athletes’ anti-doping

Karolinska University Hospital"Concerning the analysis of the athlete's sample, WADA always expects Anti-Doping

in this case was not flagged by RUSADA as being a priority sample when it was received by the anti-doping

As previously announced, under the terms of the Code, when a minor is involved in an anti-doping case

Laboratory.Russia were also sanctioned at Pyeongchang 2018, as part of the legacy of the Sochi 2014 doping


USOPC claim CAS decision in Valieva case prevents athletes competing on level playing field

  • Beijing 2022

United States Olympic and Paralympic Committee (USOPC) chief executive Sarah Hirshland has claimed the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) decision not to reinstate Kamila Valieva’s provisional suspension marks "another chapter in the systemic and pervasive disregard for clean sport by Russia".

panel rejected appeals to reinstate the Valieva’s provisional suspension lifted by the Russian Anti-Doping

Agency (RUSADA) Disciplinary Anti-Doping Committee.The CAS Panel, chaired by Italy's Fabio Iudica, ruled

that it considered her protected person status under the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) Code when making

Bergant Rakočeviċ, cited "serious issues of untimely notification of the results of the athletes’ anti-doping

Doping and the trauma of a positive test pose grave physical and psychological risks to all athletes


Valieva cleared to compete at Beijing 2022 as CAS decide against reimposing suspension

  • Beijing 2022

Kamila Valieva has been cleared to compete in tomorrow’s women’s singles figure skating event at the 2022 Winter Olympics here, after a Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) panel rejected an appeal to reimpose her provisional suspension following a positive drug test.

Valieva's status as a protected athlete under the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) Code was among the

Panel.It ruled there were "serious issues of untimely notification of the results of the athletes’ anti-doping

these circumstances.”CAS director general Matthieu Reeb criticised the length of time taken in the anti-doping

team event appears unlikely to take place at Beijing 2022, given a full decision on whether an anti-doping

Agency, whose Disciplinary Anti-Doping Committee lifted the provisional suspension, blamed a COVID-19


Iranian skier admits responsibility for positive doping test at Beijing 2022

  • Beijing 2022

Iranian Alpine skier Hossein Saveh Shemshaki has admitted responsibility and pleaded for forgiveness after testing positive for a banned substance at the Winter Olympics here.

testosterone.The ITA confirmed that Saveh Shemshaki’s sample was collected at an out-of-competition anti-doping

control on February 7 before the result of the drugs test was reported by the World Anti-Doping Agency-accredited

chance by the ITA challenge the provisional suspension at the Court of Arbitration for Sport’s Anti-Doping


Former WADA President Pound suggests Russian "timeout" after Valieva doping case

  • Figure Skating

Former President of the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) and longest-serving International Olympic Committee

member Richard Pound has suggested Russia has a "timeout" from the Olympic Games following the latest doping

organisation from 1999 until 2007, theorised that a suspension from the Games for Russia would improve anti-doping

on behalf of the IOC - are appealing the lifting of the provisional suspension by the Russian Anti-Doping

Agency, which have cleared her to compete in competition while the anti-doping investigation continues.Also

on the line today ©Getty ImagesSpeaking to Reuters, Pound claimed the nation would improve its anti-doping

anthem and uniforms as part of CAS sanctions imposed in December 2020 due to findings of state-sponsored doping


Valieva entourage face investigation as coach defends "innocent and clean" athlete

  • Beijing 2022

The entourage of teenage figure skater Kamila Valieva are set to be investigated by the World Anti-Doping

Due to Valieva being a protected person under the World Anti-Doping Code, due to being under the age

of 16, an investigation is automatically required into her support personnel.The World Anti-Doping Code

investigation into whether Athlete Support Personnel or other Persons may have been involved in each case of doping

Athlete Support Person who has provided support to more than one Athlete found to have committed an anti-doping

Tutberidze defended Kamila Valieva as an "innocent and clean" athlete ©Getty ImagesThe Russian Anti-Doping


The figure skating furore that pre-figured the Valieva controversy - looking back at the Salt Lake 2002 pairs double gold

  • The Big Read

Figure skating at the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics is currently convulsed with the case of the Russian Olympic Committee's 15-year-old Kamila Valieva, whose eligibility to compete in the women's event is due to be determined by a Court of Arbitration for Sport panel tomorrow.

years ago - an occurrence that was also of pressing importance to Russia.Valieva's case relates to a doping

infraction - under challenge tomorrow will be the decision of the Russian Anti-Doping Agency (RUSADA

) to lift Valieva's provisional doping suspension on February 9, the day after it was imposed following




CAS to rule on Valieva case day before women's competition starts at Beijing 2022

  • Beijing 2022

The Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) Ad Hoc Division expects to reach a decision in the Kamila Valieva case on Monday (February 14), one day prior to the start of the women's figure skating competition at the 2022 Winter Olympics here.

The CAS confirmed three appeals have been received challenging the decision of the Russian Anti-Doping

Testing Agency, is listed as one of the organisations challenging the RUSADA decision.The World Anti-Doping

three procedures will be handled together.The panel will rule on whether RUSADA's Disciplinary Anti-Doping

suspension, allowing her to continue to train and compete at Beijing 2022.RUSADA's Disciplinary Anti-Doping

February 8, which confirmed a positive for banned substance trimetazidine.A decision on whether an anti-doping



Russian curler banned for doping at Pyeongchang 2018 plans to return as suspension ends today

  • Curling

Krushelnitckii has confirmed his intention to return to the sport after the conclusion of his four-year doping

positive test for heart-attack drug meldonium at the Games.The Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) anti-doping

8 leading to her being provisionally suspended.The International Testing Agency and the World Anti-Doping

Court of Arbitration for Sport after Valieva’s provisional suspension was lifted by the Russian Anti-Doping


World record-holder Van der Poel hits out at "cheating" of influencing ice conditions

  • Beijing 2022

van der Poel insists his comparison of Dutch officials attempting to influence ice-making staff to doping

"I despise doping, it is a very hot topic but it is also only cheating and in my eyes, affecting competition

completing a superb 5,000 and 10,000 metres double here in Beijing.Nils van der Poel stands by comments that doping


RUSADA blames COVID-19 wave for delayed analysis of Valieva sample

  • Beijing 2022

The Russian Anti-Doping Agency (RUSADA) has claimed a wave of COVID-19 was responsible for the delay

at the Russian Figure Skating Championships.Analysis of the sample was undertaken at the World Anti-Doping

event next week will be determined by CAS ©Getty ImagesRUSADA has stressed that the Disciplinary Anti-Doping

The purpose of this investigation is to identify all the circumstances of a possible anti-doping rule

'protected person'," the RUSADA statement read.This is automatic under the rules of the World Anti-Doping

right, has been the subject of criticism in Russia following news that her young protégé had failed a doping


IOC claim they took "tough but appropriate action" against ROC as Russia at centre of new doping controversy

  • Beijing 2022

action" against the Russian Olympic Committee (ROC) as the organisation becomes embroiled in another doping

athletes are competing under the ROC banner in Beijing as part of sanctions handed down by the World Anti-Doping

under the Olympic Athletes From Russia (OAR) team name due to their "systematic manipulation" of anti-doping

lifted after the Games in the South Korean city.Kamila Valieva is at the centre of the ROC's latest doping

claimed gold on February 7 before a provisional suspension imposed on her was lifted by the Russian Anti-Doping