CAS (Court of Arbitration for Sport) has ruled that Kamila Valieva, a female figure skater who was suspended for four years due to a doping violation discovered at the Beijing Olympics a year ago, was diagnosed with heart disease. It has been revealed that the grandfather claimed that the medicine he was taking was accidentally mixed in when he prepared the strawberry dessert.
Valieva, who is from Russia, participated in the Beijing Winter Olympics a year ago as a member of the Russian Olympic Committee, but during that period, she was tested for the banned substance ``trimetazidine'' in a doping test for the Russian championship held in December 2021. It was discovered that he had tested positive.
Regarding this doping violation, CAS ruled last month that Valieva would be suspended from eligibility for four years starting in December 2021 and all grades during that period would be revoked, but on the 7th, details of the reason were made public. .
According to the investigation, Valieva's grandfather, who suffers from heart disease, accidentally dropped a pill while preparing a strawberry dessert, or the pill was cooked on the cutting board used to crush the pill, resulting in residue. He claimed that the drug entered Valieva's body through the dessert.
CAS said this explanation was "not supported by concrete evidence and could not prove that Valieva did not intentionally commit the doping violation."