The Beijing Winter Olympics are in full swing, according to the pre-match arrangement, after the end of each event, a brief award ceremony will be held on the same day, and the champions, runners-up and runners-up will stand on the podium and receive mascots.
As is customary, a medal presentation ceremony is held the day after the race, and the athletes will receive medals, which is also one of the most exciting moments.
However, on February 11, Beijing time, the International Olympic Committee, the International Skating Federation and the World Anti-Doping Agency jointly issued a statement that it would appeal to the International Court of Arbitration for Sport.
This is because the talented girl who previously won the gold medal received a positive doping test the day after the competition, but she was only banned for 1 day before she was announced to continue to compete and compete for the gold medal in the individual event.
It may seem like an incredible thing, but it really happens.
The questioned player is the Russian genius girl Vallieva, in today's women's single skating field, Vallieva's strength is much higher than all the players, as long as she plays normally, or there are not too many mistakes, then, the women's single skating gold medal of the Beijing Winter Olympics will be carried into her pocket.
In the first gold medal battle in figure skating that ended on February 7, the Russian Olympic team won the gold medal in the team event, and Valieva lived up to expectations and won the highest points in the women's singles division for Russia with perfect performance.
However, just 1 day has passed, and Russia's upcoming gold medal looks like it is about to be stripped away. Because, a number of foreign media revealed that there are athletes who test positive for doping in Russia. The International Olympic Committee was vague, saying that the medal ceremony had to be postponed due to an unexpected circumstance.
Later on Feb. 8, a laboratory in Stockholm, Sweden, reported that a positive sample of Vallieva taken by the Russian anti-doping agency on December 25 last year detected the banned substance trimetazide, a drug for heart disease that increases coronary blood flow.
On the same day, the Russian Anti-Doping Agency announced that Valieva was temporarily suspended. During the Pyeongchang Winter Olympics, trimetazidine was found in the test samples of Russian athletes, and finally banned for 8 months.
By analogy, Vallieva's previous team title is likely to be cancelled and she will not be able to compete in the women's singles event.
Everything was unexpected, and just one day later, on February 9, the Russian Anti-Doping Agency announced that the penalty for Vallieva's temporary ban was lifted, and Vallieva could continue to participate in the following competitions!
Since the test sample was sent to the Stockholm laboratory in Sweden by the Russian Anti-Doping Agency, neither the IOC nor the World Anti-Doping Agency has the right to ban Valieva, which is why the IOC chose to appeal to the International Court of Arbitration for Sport and ask the Russian Anti-Doping Agency to reinstate Valyeva's temporary ban.
With less than 4 days to go, the women's single skating competition will officially begin, is it possible that Valieva will be banned again?