The Russian Anti-Doping Agency (RUSADA) confirmed it had accomplished its investigation earlier this week
The Russian anti-doping authorities are concentrating on the top of September or the start of October for hearings into the case of Olympic determine skater Kamila Valieva, an official has stated.
The Russian Anti-Doping Agency (RUSADA) confirmed on Wednesday that it had accomplished its investigation into the circumstances of Valieva’s optimistic check for banned coronary heart drug trimetazidine – the news of which emerged throughout the Beijing Winter Olympics earlier this 12 months.
RUSADA stated paperwork have been being ready for a listening to of its Anti-doping Disciplinary Committee (DAK), and the group’s common director, Veronika Loginova, has now indicated when these proceedings will happen.
“[On Wednesday] we completed the investigation. Now there will be a procedure for processing the results in accordance with international standards and requirements,” Loginova instructed TASS.
“We cannot give an exact date. Either the end of September or the beginning of October.”
RUSADA has been charged with finishing up the investigation after Valieva, 16, returned a optimistic check from a pattern taken on the Russian National Championships in December.
The pattern was analyzed at a laboratory accredited by the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) in Stockholm, Sweden, with the outcomes solely being introduced round six weeks later.
By that point Valieva had already competed on the Beijing Games, serving to her nation to gold within the determine skating workforce occasion.
Despite the efforts of the International Olympic Committee (IOC), International Skating Union (ISU) and WADA to ban Valieva from the person occasion in Beijing, she was cleared to compete by an emergency Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) panel.
Entering the competitors because the red-hot favourite and world report factors holder for her routines, Valieva – who was age 15 on the time – would go on to complete a disappointing fourth because the ordeal of her case took its toll.
Valieva and her workforce have denied any wrongdoing, and argued at their CAS listening to in Beijing that the optimistic pattern might have come because of contamination from coronary heart treatment her grandfather was taking.
Scrutiny has fallen on Valieva’s coach, the famend Eteri Tutberidze, though she has been vehemently defended by the skater herself and Russian sporting officers.
Questions have additionally been raised relating to the delays with the WADA laboratory in Sweden returning the outcomes of the skater’s pattern.
Valieva’s optimistic check meant that the medal ceremony for the workforce occasion in Beijing was canceled.
The US workforce which completed second and the Japanese bronze medal winners are nonetheless ready to listen to how Valieva’s case will have an effect on their outcomes.
The Canadian workforce which completed fourth might additionally stand to be elevated onto the rostrum, ought to Valieva and the Russian workforce be punished.
Speaking on Thursday, the CEO of the US Olympic and Paralympic Committee (USOPC), Sarah Hirshland, claimed it was “outrageous” that the case was nonetheless being resolved.
“I’d like to tell you that I’m less mad or less frustrated but it continues to be an outrageous situation,” stated Hirshland in feedback shared by Reuters.
“I understand that the investigation is complete, we saw yesterday an announcement that the hearings would be held.”
WADA president Witold Banka stated in July that his group was monitoring developments carefully as RUSADA carried out its investigations.
“If we are not happy, we can always use the possibility to go directly to CAS,” stated Banka.
Meanwhile, Valieva and her fellow Russian determine skaters resembling Olympic champion Anna Shcherbakova and Olympic silver medalist Alexandra Trusova stay sidelined from worldwide competitors because of the ISU ban imposed due to the battle in Ukraine.
(RT.com)