The IOC (= International Olympic Committee) has announced that the temporary suspension of qualification due to a doping violation received by ROC = Russian Olympic Committee's Camilla Wariewa, a leading figure skating athlete at the Beijing Olympics, has been lifted. He said he would reach a conclusion by the 15th regarding the complaint filed with the CAS = Court of Arbitration for Sport.
The figure skating group held on the 7th of this month did not hold a medal award ceremony, and for ROC's 15-year-old Wariewa who won the gold medal, the ITA = international test organization said in a doping test last December that it promotes blood flow. Announced that a positive reaction for a certain prohibited drug "trimetazidine" was obtained.
Furthermore, following the arrival of the test results on the 8th of this month, the Russian Anti-Doping Agency suspended the qualification temporarily, but after that, protests from the Wariewa player side were accepted and the disposition was lifted. It is clear.
The IOC, along with WADA (World Anti-Doping Agency), has filed a complaint with CAS against the decision that Wariewa has been lifted and allowed to continue participating, and has been accepted.
In response, IOC spokeswoman Mark Adams said at a press conference on the 12th, "Whether the suspension will be lifted by the 15th of this month, when the women's singles that Wariewa will play next will start. I am confident that I can reach a conclusion. "
In addition, even though the issue of doping is entrusted to an independent organization such as WADA = International Anti-Doping Agency, when asked why he intervened, he said, "The magnitude of the impact of this issue on the Games. Thinking about it, I thought we should be involved in the problem-solving process. It's an expression of how quickly we want to solve this problem. "