Kamila Valieva finally knows her fate. The Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) delivered its opinion on Monday. The 17-year-old skater, Olympic team champion at the 2022 Games, will be suspended for four years for this anti-doping test which revealed the presence of trimetazidine (banned by the World Anti-Doping Agency since 2014) in the body of the young skater. 2021.
The judges’ result comes at the end of a complex case due to Valieva’s age (15 years) when the positive test was revealed at the 2022 Games and the decision of the independent disciplinary commission of the Russian anti-doping authority ( RUSADA) not to suspend the athlete initially.