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Kamila Valieva’s defense for testing positive for the banned substance trimetazidine, which is usually used to treat heart patients, was that it somehow came from medication that her grandfather was taking. That’s what lawyers for the Russian figure skater argued to the Court of Arbitration for Sport on Sunday, according to IOC member Denis Oswald. Oswald, speaking after a press conference Tuesday morning, just hours before Valieva was to controversially compete in the women’s individual… Source link

BEIJING — U.S. anti-doping chief Travis Tygart said Friday that the testing delay that allowed Russian figure skater Kamila Valieva to compete at the Olympics was “absolutely inexcusable” and “a catastrophic failure of the system that is so egregious, it almost seems intentional.” “I’m not saying that it is [intentional], because I don’t know that,” Tygart clarified in a phone interview. “But it never should’ve happened.” The International Testing Agency confirmed Friday that Valieva, the… Source link