General Director of the “Trophées de Palmyre Nord” team exhibition tournament Alexander Medvedev told that the successes of Russians in some sports aroused envy in other countries, which could lead to long-term disqualifications for doping.
On Thursday, the International Tennis Integrity Agency (ITIA) declared that world no. Iga Swiętek passed a positive doping test for the banned substance trimetazidine. As a result, it was decided that there was no significant misconduct or negligence and the athlete was suspended for one month. Schwiatek’s temporary suspension from September 12 to October 4 counted toward the ban period, leaving her to serve an 8-day sentence until December 4.
At the end of January, the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) disqualified the Russian figure skater Kamila Valieva four years for anti-doping rule violations. The suspension period is counted from December 25, 2021, from this date all its results are canceled. Trimetazidine was also found in the athlete’s sample.
— Shventek was disqualified for a month and Valieva for four years for the same drug. Are there political reasons for the difference in decisions?
— Our rhythmic gymnastics, swimming and figure skating caused envy and gnashing of teeth (among representatives of other countries). I don’t want to think it’s a conspiracy. We need to know all the details of the cases; perhaps we had gaps in the explanation of how doping enters the body. In figure skating, the eyelids are even shorter than in tennis. The athlete was actually deprived of the opportunity to compete at the highest level,” Medvedev told .
The ITIA acknowledged that the positive test in Szwiatek’s case was due to contamination of an over-the-counter medication (melatonin) produced and sold in Poland that the 23-year-old tennis player was taking for sleep problems, and that the violation was not intentional. The batch of the drug is believed to have been contaminated during production.
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