The media gave the reason for the postponement of the CAS hearings in the Valieva case

Hearings in the case of a Russian figure skater Kamila Valieva Proceedings before the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) were suspended in September and postponed until November at the request of the athlete’s legal team, USA Today reports.

According to the publication, the lawyers asked to see documents that were not initially included in the proceedings, but were known to exist.

The first hearings took place from September 26 to 28, the court decided to resume consideration of the case on November 9 and 10.

At the 2022 Beijing Olympics, Valieva helped the Russian team win gold in the team competition. Before the personal tournament, it became known that the doping control of the figure skater of the Russian Championship, carried out in December 2021, contained the banned drug trimetazidine. The CAS admitted the Russian to the individual competitions of the Games, where she took fourth place.

Subsequently, the anti-doping disciplinary committee of the Russian Anti-Doping Agency (DAK RUSADA) ruled that although Valieva had committed an anti-doping rule violation, she bore “no fault or negligence”. The athlete avoided sanctions, except for the cancellation of his results on the date of sample collection – December 25, 2021. Subsequently, RUSADA, the International Skating Union (ISU) and the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) filed appeals to CAS, which were consolidated into one proceeding. WADA insists on a four-year disqualification for the skater.

Valieva is 17 years old and is the 2022 European champion.