Russian figure skating star Kamila Valieva,
just 15
, tested positive for a banned heart drug before the Games, Russian media reported.
Developments on Valieva, who led Russia to team gold - the award ceremony has been frozen -
could cost Russia team gold
and jeopardize her participation in the individual event which begins on Tuesday.
La Valieva stunned during her test,
performing a quadruple jump
, even almost three, for the first time in Olympic history, falling in the last attempt.
The positive sample was obtained before Valieva won the European championship in January, the RBC newspaper reported: the drug detected is trimetazidine, a metabolic agent prescribed for the treatment of angina and dizziness, according to the newspaper Kommersant.
It is banned by the World Anti-Doping Agency because it can increase blood flow efficiency and aid endurance.
The developments, which add to Russia's bad reputation, subject to sanction for state doping, are the reason why the
medal ceremony was frozen
.
The spokesman for the IOC, Mark Adams, motivated the postponement initiative with a generic one with an ongoing
"legal consultation"
with the governing body of sport, the International Skating Union.
"We have athletes who have won medals," Adams told the daily briefing, without giving further details.
Russian athletes are competing in the Beijing 2022 Winter Games as the Russian Olympic Committee (ROC) after the country was banned due to a massive state-sponsored anti-doping scheme at the 2014 Sochi Games.