She announced it in mid-January, she keeps her word. The World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) announced on Tuesday February 21, via a short press release, that it had decided to bring the Kamila Valieva case before the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS). She explains that she “ carefully examined the reasoned sentence and the file relating to the case of the figure skater of the Russian Olympic Committee. » A young Russian who, let us remember, was convicted of doping in December 2021 at the national championships in Moscow, but authorized to participate in the team events of the Beijing 2022 Games, where she won the gold medal with ROC team, then individual where she took 4th place. The AMA explains that “ the conclusion of the Disciplinary Court of the Russian Anti-Doping Agency that the athlete committed the violation with “no fault or negligence” is erroneous under the World Anti-Doping Code”. Consequently, the agency announces that it is exercising its right to appeal to the CAS. She requests a period of suspension of four years and the cancellation of all the results of Kamila Valieva from the date of the sample collection, December 25, 2021, therefore her gold medal won in the skating event artistic team team at the Beijing 2022 Games. As the matter is now pending before the CAS, WADA cannot make any further comment at this time.", concludes the international agency. The Valieva soap opera is therefore far from over. Its next episodes promise to be very popular. No hearing date has yet been set, but the case of the young skater, cleared by the Russian Anti-Doping Agency (RUSADA), should further delay a possible reinstatement of RUSADA after two years of exclusion from all international competition . It is difficult, in fact, to imagine WADA giving the green light to the end of her suspension until the CAS has delivered its verdict on the Valieva case.
