The court detailed that the hearing will be held by videoconference at 8:30 p.m., China time, and will be in charge of a panel of arbitrators made up of the Italian Fabio Iudica, the American Jeffrey Benz and the Slovenian doctor Vesna Bergant Rakocevic.
After due analysis, the experts will notify the conclusions to the interested parties on the afternoon of Monday, February 14, just one day before Valíeva’s first individual in the women’s category.
The court also confirmed that it received appeals from the International Olympic Committee, the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) and the International Ice Skating Union against the Russian Anti-Doping Agency’s decision to lift the young woman’s provisional suspension.
According to the International Control Agency, the presence of trimetazidine was detected in the examination carried out on the adolescent on December 25, 2021, during a championship in Saint Petersburg. The process was developed by a laboratory in Stockholm (Sweden), accredited by WADA.
But the Russian Olympic Committee indicated that the athlete tested negative for doping before and after that date, including in Beijing, and considered that the period of processing the positive sample presented by the World Agency laboratory raises “serious questions”. Anti-doping.
He promised to take comprehensive measures and do his best to preserve the gold won last Monday in the figure skating team category and safeguard the rights and interests of his athletes.
As he added, the individual results of Valíeva and her colleagues in the competition “are not subject to automatic review because the athlete’s positive doping test was not carried out” during the Beijing 2022 games.
The Russian Olympic Committee won gold for that event, which combines the scores of single male and female skaters, as well as pairs and dancers on the ice.
Valíeva, 15, contributed 74 points after becoming the first athlete to achieve a quadruple jump in an Olympic event.
But the delivery of the medals is indefinitely delayed.
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