Figure skater Kamila Valieva arrived in Kazan for the stage of the Russian Grand Prix

Russian figure skater Kamila Valieva arrived in Kazan to perform on the stage of the Russian Grand Prix and was present at the competition draw, reports a correspondent on site.

Hearings in Valieva’s case before the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) will take place on November 9 and 10, and on November 11 and 12 the athlete is scheduled to compete at the Russian Grand Prix in Kazan.

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.