By Karolos Grohmann
(Reuters) – The delay in Russian determine skater Kamila Valieva receiving her optimistic drug take a look at end result, which allowed her to compete and win a gold medal on the Beijing Video games, loomed giant on Saturday as Olympic and anti-doping officers sought to reinstate her ban.
Greater than six weeks glided by between Valieva’s pattern being taken on Dec. 25 and Feb. 8 when she was notified by a lab in Stockholm, Sweden that she had examined optimistic for the banned coronary heart remedy trimetazidine. Valieva and her Russian Olympic Committee (ROC) group gained a gold medal a day earlier.
The Stockholm lab is accredited by the World Anti-Doping Affiliation (WADA).
The Russian Olympic Committee (ROC) and the Russian Anti-Doping Affiliation have questioned the timeline.
On Saturday, the Worldwide Olympic Committee mentioned the delay was a query for WADA.
“I can’t communicate instantly in regards to the delay. It was a WADA-sanctioned lab in Stockholm so that may be a query that needs to be directed to WADA.”
WADA couldn’t be instantly contacted by Reuters.
Valieva was suspended by the Russian anti-doping physique after the optimistic take a look at report, however the suspension was lifted a day later after she appealed, permitting her to proceed to compete. Her subsequent occasion, the singles determine skating, is on Tuesday.
The Worldwide Olympic Committee (IOC) and the World Anti-Doping Company (WADA) have requested the Court docket of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) to reinstate Kalieva’s suspension.
(Modifying by Leela de Kretser; Modifying by Michael Perry)
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