The World Anti-Doping Agency has applied to the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) with a request to disqualify Kamila Valieva for four years and take away her medals received after December 25, 2021.
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The investigation into the case of Kamila Valieva is being conducted by RUSADA. WADA is infuriating. It always demands something: to announce the details, to complete the investigation by the deadline he named, to suspend the skater for four years. Apparently, they can’t wait to hang around the neck of the Americans the gold of the Olympic Commander, won in a fair fight by Russia. Overseas gentlemen are in such a hurry that they already forget about their own rules. For example, that Camila is a protected person and her case should be closed. And also that the maximum punishment for minors is two years.
If Valieva is innocent, present evidence, the haters shout. Surprisingly, many in Russia also believed in this set-up. Imagine you are a non-drinker. A traffic cop stops you, asks you to breathe into a tube and issues a verdict, confirmed by a printout from the device: “You are drunk, we are taking away your rights.” You are absolutely sure that you have not drunk a single drop of alcohol in your entire life. But the paper says: 0.5 ppm. Approximately in such a situation is Camila.
- The sample contained traces of trimetazidine at a concentration of 2.1 ng/ml. But laboratory equipment can reliably detect trimetazidine at a concentration of 10 ng / ml. That is, in this case, a technical error is possible.
- To understand whether this is an accident or not, we need the technical characteristics of these sensitive miracle devices from the Swedish laboratory, as well as entries from the registration logs. But it seems that no one RUSADA gives them. Maybe that’s why the investigation is dragging on? By the way, this Swedish laboratory has already been deprived of accreditation for a year for research methods that do not meet the standards.
- A claim to invalidate the sample on the basis of an insignificant concentration was filed with the CAS during the Olympics. To satisfy him, there would be enough data from the Stockholm laboratory. But since then, nothing has been heard about this lawsuit.
- The laboratory is silent about whether there was a note about the urgency of the analysis and why it was delayed: the standard period is three weeks, and six have passed, during which Valieva managed to win the European Championship and, together with the team, the Olympic tournament.
2.1 ng / ml is a trace after taking one tablet after 5 to 7 days (primary concentration of trimetazidine is 966 ng / ml). It turns out that Camila drank one capsule a week before performing at the Russian Championships. After all, the rest of the samples in that season are clean. But the drug is drunk in a course, and it has side effects in the form of dizziness, loss of concentration, and inhibition of movements. Is this exactly what a figure skater who claims Olympic gold needs? Or is a dirty test beneficial to someone else in order to accuse a Russian underage athlete of doping and slam her coaches with the same blow?
Is it different?!
- In Norway, athletes under 18 have not been tested for doping since 2018. So what? Only this summer, WADA issued a warning to them, and so far they have dispersed.
Photo source: Daniil Oparin/KP