Doping-Valieva Blamed Positive Test On Dessert Prepared By Her Grandfather – CAS – News18

Banned Russian determine skater Kamila Valieva blamed her optimistic doping check on a strawberry dessert ready by her grandfather on a chopping board he used to crush his medicine drugs, the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) mentioned on Wednesday.

CAS printed their Arbitral Award on Wednesday, setting out the explanations for the 4-12 months doping ban handed all the way down to Valieva in January.

The highest court docket in sport had discovered Valieva responsible of committing an anti-doping rule violation (ADRV), following the discovering of Trimetazidine (TMZ) in a pattern collected from her in December 2021, through the Russian National Championships.

CAS mentioned that in her submissions, Valieva asserted that the prohibited substance entered her physique by way of the consumption of the dessert ready by her grandfather on a board he used to crush his drugs containing TMZ.

“The CAS Panel determined that this explanation was not corroborated by any concrete evidence and that the Athlete was not able to establish that she had not committed the ADRV intentionally,” CAS mentioned.

“From this basis, and according to the relevant rules, the status of “Protected Person” that the Athlete may get pleasure from earlier than the CAS advert hoc Division on the time of the Olympic Winter Games 2022, due to her younger age and on the idea of the restricted proof which was out there on the very starting of the case, was now not relevant in her state of affairs.”

CAS went on to say that as Valieva failed to ascertain that she didn’t commit the ADRV deliberately, and because the “No Significant Fault or Negligence” criterion was not met, there was no foundation to deal with her any in a different way from an grownup athlete.

All of Valieva’s aggressive outcomes because the date of the offence have been voided, together with the gold medal she helped the Russian Olympic Committee win within the staff occasion on the 2022 Beijing Winter Games. Russia mentioned it might attraction the choice to strip it of the medal.

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