Valieva decision likely to be made early next year – media

The Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) will rule on the doping case of the Russian figure skater Kamila Valieva in the coming months, reports USA Today.

According to the publication, the verdict could be announced in December, but most likely this will happen in early 2024. The CAS hearings in Valieva’s case began in September, were later postponed and resumed on November 9-10.

At the 2022 Beijing Olympics, Valieva helped the Russian team win gold in the team competition, the American team took second place, and the Japanese team took third place. Before the personal tournament, it became known that the banned drug trimetazidine was found during the doping test of the figure skater of the Russian championship. The CAS admitted the Russian to the individual competitions of the Games, where she took fourth place. The presentation of the Olympic medalists of the team tournament has not yet taken place.

In January this year, the Russian Anti-Doping Agency’s Anti-Doping Disciplinary Committee (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 Valieva.