[Body Road News]15-year-old Russian figure skating “genius girl” Kamila Valieva (Kamila Valieva) took the first place with a game-high 82.16 points in the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics figure skating short program on Tuesday (15th) night. Advance to the free skate on Thursday (17th) night and will compete with 24 other players for medals. Although Hua Liwa’s successful promotion is not surprising at all, she was still allowed to participate in the doping scandal, which naturally made other competitors who were competing in the same field feel that the decision was unfair.
Hua Liwa was in last nightcomplete short programAfter the match, she was believed to be in a stressful relationship and burst into tears on the spot. After the game, she walked directly through the mixed area full of media waiting to ask questions, and did not stop for an interview.Hua Liwa is inDrug test after a game at the end of last yearthe sample was found to contain the drug Trimetazidine, which was listed as a banned drug as early as 2014 and is specially used for the treatment of angina pectoris, although she explained that the banned drug was found to be related to her heart disease. But the New York Times reported on Tuesday that in addition to trimetazidine, Hualiwa’s sample contained two other heart drugs, one of which was the antioxidant Hypoxen, which improves metabolism, and the other, which reduces the Body fat nutritional supplement L-Carnitine (L-Carnitine).
L-carnitine, a natural substance that converts fat into energy, is approved for oral use, but prohibited when administered in large quantities by infusion or intravenously because it may offer an unfair performance-enhancing advantage. L-carnitine has also appeared in major doping cases in the past. In 2019, Alberto Salazar, then a coach of several world-class distance runners, was banned for four years for inappropriately injecting his athletes with the drug. , the ban was extended to a permanent ban.
Although the heart drugs Hypoxen and L-carnitine are not banned, officials from anti-doping groups believe it is highly unusual for all three to be present in a healthy, young athlete. According to the “New York Times” report, Travis Tygart, CEO of the US Anti-Doping Agency, mentioned in an interview that the combination of the three drugs found in Hualiwa’s sample “should improve endurance. , reduce fatigue, and improve the efficiency of oxygen use”.
“This is obviously a very sensitive topic, I can only speak for myself, but I advocate A clean sports environment. I think that’s the whole idea of the Olympics and our entire career, and I’m very proud of my career.” Another U.S. representative, Liu Meixian, who advanced to free skating in eighth place, said: “I I don’t know the ins and outs of what happened, but in the big picture, it’s obviously not fair for athletes who use drugs to compete with clean athletes.”
Hualiwa and two teammates Alexandra Trusova and Shu Shaba, who also represent the Russian Olympic Committee (ROC), will compete in the women’s singles free skating event at the Beijing Winter Olympics on Thursday night. Gowa (Anna Shcherbakova) is seen as the favorite to sweep the medals, the latter is the 2021 world championship champion. However, Dusova made a slight mistake in the short program last night, which gave the Japanese player Sakamoto Hanaori the opportunity to take the third place, and also prevented the three Russian players from finishing in the top 3 in the short program. It is worth mentioning that among the 25 players who will compete in free skating, only three representatives from Russia can make and complete the quadruple jump, which is forbidden in the short program of women’s figure skating. , but I believe that the three will definitely use this trick in free skating.
Source: Comprehensive foreign media
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