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The Russian skater Kamila Valieva, who was only 15 when she found herself at the heart of a doping scandal at the 2022 Winter Olympics, has been banned for four years. The verdict means that Russia is certain to be stripped of its team gold from the Games, with the International Skating Union expected to formally announce on Tuesday that the medal will go to the United States.
Valieva’s ban was confirmed by the court of arbitration for sport, which said that the skater, now 17, would be stripped of all her results, prizes, medals and awards going back to Christmas Day in 2021 when she failed a test for trimetazidine (TMZ), a drug designed to prevent angina.
Written by Sean Ingle
This news first appeared on https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2024/jan/29/russia-figure-skater-kamila-valieva-four-year-doping-ban-beijing-winter-olympics under the title “Russian skater Kamila Valieva’s titles stripped after four-year ban for doping”. Bolchha Nepal is not responsible or affiliated towards the opinion expressed in this news article.
