There is the impression that very soon Kamila Valieva from the skating rink on which she enchants the world for her marvelous quadruple jumps, will find herself, without being to blame because it appears impossible to administer voluntary medicines at the age of 15 (!), Submerged by papers that speak of accusations, which will provide counter-arguments and which will write reasons for convictions.
The first round went to Kamila, a sharp 2-0 in the Olympic and anti-doping movement, but the impression is that his case will continue not only in the months but even in the years. New episodes of the ‘sports war’ between Russia and sports institutions from the rest of the world (and vice versa) are announced which, to date, sees the ‘great mother Russia’ disqualified because accused of state doping and serious inconsistencies in the anti-doping laboratory in Moscow.
Kamila, sweet and innocent girl from Tatarstan who at 15 was found positive for doping (who led her to take banned substances?), Will be able to continue to compete in her first Olympics in which she had already amazed the world in the competition teams. ‘Miss Perfect’, as she has already been dubbed by her nearly 530,000 followers and fond of her pomeranian dog ‘Lyova’, will participate in the women’s individual competition.
The winds on her, and even more on her staff led by a 47-year-old woman, severe, cold, who doesn’t get attached to her students because “otherwise they don’t pay off”, who talks very little with journalists, from the name by Eteri Georgievna Tutberidze, could blow stronger than ‘Buran’.
The impression is that his individual Olympic competition is already, from the start, ‘sub-judice’. Kamila in the Beijing evening tomorrow – her performance in the short program is scheduled at 21.52 local time (14.52 in Italy) – will skate on the notes of ‘In Memoriam’ by Kirill Richter.
The decision not to sanction, or to suspend, the star of world skating was above all a heartfelt one, with a psychological impact. It should be noted that the jurisprudence on juvenile doping, that is under the age of 15, is still non-existent because it does not sanction up to the age of 16. The Ad hoc Division at the Olympic headquarters of the Arbitral Tribunal for Sport (TAS) has decided to reject the appeal – promoted by the International Olympic Committee (Cio), the World Anti-Doping Agency (Wda) and the World Skating Federation (Isu) – which asked to re-impose the provisional suspension of the young Russian figure skater.
The reason for expelling Kamila from the Games was linked to her positivity to doping, trimetazidine, a drug that is usually administered to treat anginawhich emerged in a check on December 25 at the National Championships in St. Petersburg.
The positivity was disclosed by the Wada accredited laboratory in Stockholm only on February 8, apparently due to slowdowns due to the coronavirus. On the 8th, however, the Beijing Olympic Games had already begun. The Tas panel, chaired by the Italian lawyer Fabio Iudica, after having annulled the exceptions of athlete and Russian Olympic Committee, motivated that Kamila Valieva is a ‘protected person’ under the Wada code because she will blow out the 16 candles on the next 26. April.
Then the fundamental principles of fairness, proportionality, irreparable damage, and relative balance of interests between the applicants for the suspension and the athlete who had a negative result in the Olympic venue were considered. In particular, the judges considered that “preventing the athlete from competing in the Olympic Games would cause her irreparable harm”.
Finally, TAS confirmed that there were “serious problems in notifying the athlete of the doping control result” and that this “violated the athlete’s right to establish certain legal requirements to his advantage” and, therefore, “such a late notification is not attributable to his fault”. The announcement was made at 3 pm by the general secretary of TAS, Matthieu Reeb at the conference room of the Main Media Center where AGI was present.
A few minutes later off to an avalanche of comments. The first was the United States: “It is another chapter in Russia’s systematic and pervasive contempt for clean sport”, then the invitation to the Olympic Movement to continue to fight for clean sport on behalf of athletes from all over the world ” .
The Executive of the International Olympic Committee also entered into the matter, which warned of the “non-opportunity, in the interest of fairness towards all athletes, to hold the award ceremony of the figure skating team event during the Beijing Olympic Games as it would include an athlete who on the one hand has a positive Champion A and on the other hand an anti-doping violation not yet ascertained “.
The IOC then specified that “if Ms Valieva were to finish among the top three competitors (very easy because she is the big favorite for gold, ed) in the individual competition, during the Beijing Games neither the ceremony of the delivery of flowers “shortly after the end of the competition” nor the award ceremony “of the medals must take place.
Finally, the IOC asked the federation of competence, the Isu, that “for reasons of fairness, to allow the 25 / a classified to participate in the free trial in the event that Ms Valieva is classified among the top 24 at the end of tomorrow’s short film.
The first 24 athletes of the short film can access the free program of the individual competitions. Commenting on the sentence, Wada said she was “disappointed by today’s sentence of the Tas Ad hoc Division” while the president of the Russian skating federation said he was “very happy for Valieva and that common sense and justice have triumphed” with the Russian Olympic Committee talking about “crazy situation that cost Kamila tears and moral strength”.
In a week the Olympia fire will already be extinguished, it will be virtually directed to Italy because in four years it will ignite ‘Milan-Cortina 2026’ but the Valieva case is destined to ignite. The Russian anti-doping agency (Rusada) has announced that it will conduct an investigation into the skater’s entourage. The secret and magical kingdom of Eteri, still today czarina of world skating, far from well regarded by other Russian schools, could begin to crumble.