Russian anti-doping officers are resulting from launch their conclusions within the coming weeks
The head of the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) has reiterated the group’s expectations for “accelerated” progress with the investigation into Russian Olympic determine skater Kamila Valieva. Russian officers introduced final week that they’d concluded their probe into Valieva’s case, with a listening to set for the top of September or early October.
“We know the date when the hearing is so we have to wait until the decision and then WADA will decide what to do,” WADA president Witold Banka mentioned at a Global Education Conference in Sydney on Tuesday, as quoted by Reuters.
“We are monitoring this issue very closely and last month I expressed my will that they have to accelerate the process. Now that we know the hearing could be very soon. Let’s see.”
Russian Anti-Doping Agency (RUSADA) director common Veronika Loginova confirmed final week that the investigation into Valieva and her staff had been concluded, and that “there will be a procedure for processing the results in accordance with international standards and requirements.”Â
The subsequent stage of the case can be a listening to at RUSADA’s anti-doping disciplinary committee (DAK).
Valieva, 16, emerged as the most important story of the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics after it was reported that she had examined constructive for the banned coronary heart drug trimetazidine based mostly on a pattern taken six weeks earlier than the Games started.
By the time the constructive check consequence appeared, Valieva had already competed within the staff occasion in Beijing, serving to the Russian Olympic Committee (ROC) to gold.
Valieva was then cleared to function within the ladies’s particular person occasion after an emergency listening to by the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS).
Despite being the sturdy gold medal favourite, {the teenager} completed a disappointing fourth because the ordeal took its toll, whereas compatriots Anna Shcherbakova and Alexandra Trusova received gold and silver respectively.
RUSADA has since been tasked with investigating the circumstances of Valieva’s constructive check – which the skater’s staff have steered might have come through contamination from treatment her grandfather was taking.
The medals for the Beijing 2022 staff occasion received by Russia have nonetheless not been awarded after the ceremony was postponed within the wake of the news of Valieva’s constructive check.
The USA completed in second place, with Japan in third and Canada in fourth.
Commenting extra broadly on the two-year WADA ban imposed on Russia resulting from claims of state-sponsored doping and manipulation of laboratory information – allegations denied by Russian officers – Banka mentioned there stays an “open line of communication” forward of the deliberate expiration of the sanctions in December.
“We have to wait for the end of the year, we monitor what they are doing, let’s see in the next weeks or months what happens in terms of (readmitting) them to the system,” mentioned the Pole.
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Meanwhile, Valieva and her fellow Russian skating stars are at the moment banned from international competitors following a ruling by the International Skating Union (ISU) within the wake of the battle in Ukraine.Â
They will as a substitute seem in home competitions that are deliberate for the approaching months by Russian officers. Â