“The whole country dreams that everything will be resolved in the best possible way.” Navka – about the upcoming CAS decision in the Valieva case

Olympic ice dancing champion Tatiana Navka in a conversation with , she expressed hope that the decision of the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) on the figure skater’s doping case Kamila Valieva will be positive.

On Monday, the CAS press service told that the decision in Valieva’s case would be published on January 29 at around 5 p.m. Moscow time.

“The whole country wishes and dreams that everything will be resolved in the best possible way and nothing will prevent Kamila from continuing her sports career,” Navka told .

Valieva at the 2022 Olympic Games in Beijing helped the Russian team win gold in the team competition. 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 allowed the Russian to participate in the individual competitions at the Games, where she finished fourth. The award ceremony for the winners of the team tournament has not yet taken place.

In January 2023, the anti-doping disciplinary committee of the Russian Anti-Doping Agency (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) appealed to the CAS.