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Linus Strasser
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That was important
There seem to be new details in the case of
Kamila Valiewa
: According to information from the "New York Times", three different substances for the treatment of heart problems were discovered in the doping sample of the 15-year-old figure skater.
In addition to the well-known trimetazidine are the hypoxene, which helps against cardiac arrhythmia, and L-carnitine, which is used against circulatory disorders.
According to "NYT", this emerges from a document that was presented to the Cas Sports Court at the hearing about the Russian woman's starting permission in the individual competition at the Winter Games in Beijing.
Valiyeva was tested at the Russian Championships on December 25th.
The Cas had declared the lifting of their suspension to be legal.
You can read all the important news of the day from Beijing in the Olympic update.
That's going to be important
The German Olympic team is also hoping for medals on Wednesday - or at least good placements: in these minutes it will be decided whether ski racer
Linus Strasser
will win a medal in the
slalom
.
After the first run he was in fifth place, 0.33 seconds behind the leader Johannes Strolz.
In the women's
biathlon
relay (8.30 a.m. CET) with Olympic champion Denise Hermann, the chances of a medal are probably better than for the women's
cross-country skiers
(10.15 a.m. CET), who have to do without Katherine Sauerbrey in the team sprint.
She doesn't feel fit and is replaced by Victoria Carl.
She is only 23 years old, but
short tracker Anna Seidel
probably has her last Olympic appearance in the 1500 meter competition: in 2014 she made her debut at the age of 15, in 2018 she fell several times.
She fractured her tibia and fibula in a fall last March, but fought her way to Beijing.
She considers a start in 2026 to be “relatively impossible”.
All competitions of the day at a glance can be found here.
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