Recently, Russian figure skater Valieva has been suspected of doping violations, and there has been the latest development. According to Russian media reports, the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) and the International Sliding Federation (ISU) have asked the International Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) to impose strong penalties on Valieva. Once she makes the trip, she will face a four-year ban, which also means she says goodbye to Milan in advance. In addition, the gold medal won by K Bao in the Beijing Winter Olympics will also be taken away!
As we all know, after the figure skating team competition at the Beijing Winter Olympics last year, Valieva fell into the public opinion involved in drugs. In response, the IOC directly postponed the award ceremony of the team competition. It is understood that during a drug test on December 25, 2021, the results of the A bottle test showed that she had taken a prohibited substance called trimetazidine. It just so happened that the results of that drug test were announced on the day of the team competition on February 8.
For a while, Valieva was pushed to the cusp. You know, the 16-year-old Russian figure skating talent has broken world records countless times since she entered the adult arena. Because of this, the outside world is suspicious of her involvement in drugs, and prefers to believe that she took it by mistake.
After that, Valieva participated in the women's singles free skate despite great pressure, but her mentality was obviously affected, and she fell by mistake many times during the game, and cried into tears after the game. In fact, Valieva's emotional breakdown has a lot to do with the IOC. Because before the competition, the International Olympic Committee announced that if K Po won the top three, the award ceremony would be canceled. Because of this, K Bao did not want to affect others, so he could only choose "control points", and the end was that he did not enter the top three.
The matter has been pending for the past year. Since Valieva's B bottle test results have also been released and are still positive, this also means that she can no longer overturn the case, and it is only a matter of time before she is punished. However, the Russian Anti-Doping Agency, on the grounds of protecting minors, only withdrew the national championship of K-Bao, but did not ban it, which also made WADA and ISU particularly dissatisfied. WADA even called for punishment of Russian anti-doping-related agencies for their huge loopholes.
In fact, the whole of Russian sports is currently in a global ban, so in the eyes of the Russian anti-doping agency, it means little to ban K-Bao, but other associations do not think so, especially the United States! The US media have collectively fallen into a carnival after learning that WADA and ISU asked CAS to impose heavy penalties on Valieva.
After all, once K-Bao is penalized, the Russian figure skating team will first be stripped of its gold medal, and the United States, which originally won the silver medal, will be the champion, which will allow them to overtake China in the gold medal table and thus enter the top three. Secondly, when exactly the ban on Russian sports will be lifted is unjudged, but Valieva herself is banned, and this is a sure thing. In other words, even before the Milan Winter Olympics, when Russian sports are allowed to participate, Valieva will not be able to participate because her four-year ban is held. K Bao missed the Winter Olympics, which is great news for American figure skating.
At present, Shcherbakova and Trusova are at the stage of not being able to participate. There is no doubt that figure skating is now the domain of Americans.