The prodigy of figure skating, Russia's Kamila Valiyeva, was banned today (Monday) for four years by the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS), with a sentence that began on December 25, 2021, after she failed a drug test ahead of the 2022 Winter Olympics. As a result, all her results From the Olympic Games in Beijing they will be deleted, which will disqualify the Russian team from the team competition, and they will have to lose the gold medal, which will now be awarded to the United States, the silver medal will be given to China and the bronze to Canada.
As you may remember, the 15-year-old figure skater during the Games was caught in a test conducted for the athlete on the eve of the Olympics, and the drug she used, trimetzidine, improves the blood supply to the heart and thereby brings it to its full maximum and as a result improves performance.
This is a drug that has been on the list of prohibited substances of the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) since 2014, and is from the same family as Meldonium, which was used by former tennis player Maria Sharapova, who was suspended as a result.
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Valyeva was considered the biggest star of winter sports in Russia, all this despite her young age, and her participation in the team competition was a significant part of her country's winning the gold, after she finished first in the short and free exercise, while becoming the first woman in history to perform in the Games a quad (jumping in the air with four rotations).
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