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Last Updated: February 08, 2024, 00:00 IST
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A strawberry dessert contaminated by her grandfather’s coronary heart medicine may need prompted Russian determine skater Kamila Valieva’s constructive doping take a look at, her attorneys argued at sport’s highest court docket, which rejected the reason and banned her for 4 years.
PARIS: A strawberry dessert contaminated by her grandfather’s coronary heart medicine may need prompted Russian determine skater Kamila Valieva’s constructive doping take a look at, her attorneys argued at sport’s highest court docket, which rejected the reason and banned her for 4 years.
The Court of Arbitration for Sport on Wednesday revealed the 129-web page detailed ruling from its three judges to elucidate why they imposed the ban final week on Valieva, whose doping case at age 15 surprised the 2022 Beijing Olympics.
The phrase “strawberry” options 43 instances within the doc that particulars why the judges rejected the argument.
The CAS judges had been requested to consider that Valieva’s grandfather “accidentally dropped a pill into the dessert while he was preparing it or because there were crushed residues of a (trimetazidine) tablet on the chopping board he used to prepare the dessert.”
“There are too many shortcomings in the evidence, and too many unanswered questions, for the panel to decide that her account is more likely than not,” the judges wrote.
Valieva examined constructive for the banned coronary heart medicine in a pattern given on the Russian championships on Dec. 25, 2021. The take a look at consequence was not despatched from a laboratory in Stockholm, Sweden till six weeks later throughout the Beijing Olympics.
Valieva had already skated within the workforce occasion, serving to the Russians win gold, and was allowed to proceed competing within the girls’s particular person competitors. Under intense scrutiny, her error-stuffed free skate dropped her to a fourth-place end.
Athletes who take a look at constructive for doping can escape a ban in the event that they later show they weren’t at fault for ingesting a substance.
The rationalization from Valieva’s attorneys throughout the Olympics was that she was by accident contaminated by her grandfather’s medicine at her household’s dwelling in Moscow.
More element was given when the case got here to CAS in enchantment hearings held in separate periods final September and November in Lausanne, Switzerland.
It was advised in court docket that Valieva’s grandfather ready the strawberry dessert within the days earlier than the nationwide championships for her to take along with her to St. Petersburg.
“There is no other evidence — beyond his own assertion — that he can provide as to this claim,” the ruling said. “Nor is there other evidence — beyond his own assertion — that he was using TMZ at the time.”
The CAS judges upheld an enchantment by the World Anti-Doping Agency which requested for a 4-yr ban and disqualification of her outcomes after a Russian tribunal cleared Valieva of blame.
The Russian workforce was stripped of its Olympic title by the International Skating Union, which declared the United States champions. Japan was upgraded from bronze to silver and the Russians had been demoted to bronze after Valieva’s scores had been eliminated.
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