BEIJING (Reuters) – The hypothesis relating to Russian determine skater Kamila Valieva’s constructive doping take a look at should be powerful on the 15-year-old however the Russian Olympic Committee’s high precedence is her welfare, the Worldwide Olympic Committee (IOC) mentioned on Wednesday.
Valieva, who helped win the staff occasion on the Beijing Video games solely to return a constructive take a look at in a Dec. 25 pattern that was reported on Feb. 8, shrugged off the doping scandal on Tuesday to dominate the ladies’s singles brief programme.
The Russian is forward within the hunt for a gold medal that’s unlikely to be awarded on the Beijing Video games.
She had been allowed to compete following a call by the Courtroom of Arbitration for Sport (CAS).
“She is within the centre of loads of hypothesis. It should be very powerful for her,” IOC spokesman Mark Adams mentioned. “We’re after all in contact with the staff. Her welfare is the staff’s first precedence and clearly we’re very cautious of that.”
Valieva’s doping case has not but concluded with the ‘B’ pattern having but to be examined, and will she end within the high three after Thursday’s free skate no medals shall be awarded.
“There shall be an asterisk in opposition to the outcomes (on Thursday) as a result of they are going to be preliminary pending additional investigation,” Adams mentioned.
“We would favor to not have that occurring. My coronary heart goes out to the athletes however the IOC has to comply with the principles,” Adams mentioned.
The New York Occasions reported on Tuesday that Valieva had three medicine that could possibly be used to deal with coronary heart situations within the pattern she offered final December.
Along with testing constructive for the banned angina drug trimetazidine, the report mentioned the Stockholm laboratory that analysed her pattern additionally discovered proof of two different coronary heart medicines that aren’t on the banned listing.
(Reporting by Karolos Grohmann, Extra reporting by Julien Pretot; Enhancing by Ken Ferris)
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