In theory she would be subject to out of competition tests if she wanted to remain eligible for competition, but as @Karen-W said, we don't have much reason to believe that she was being tested as regularly as she should have been prior to the positive test.
RUSADA is still doing regular routine testing.Well, it's not as though any Russian athletes are having any doping tests right now...
According to this article, the ban would start the day of the decision, not the day of the positive test, so that would disqualify Valieva from Milan. Not that she would still be around competing anyway...
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They really go out of their way to make a scapegoat of this girl. A 15 year old does not decide on her own to take a heart medicine.
I do too, though I think there are measures in place to protect minors. I have lost respect for the IOC the way they went out of their way to make an example of her with complete disregard for her age. Minors are treated differently because of their age. The IOC as an organization should uphold the rules and regulations with regard to minors and protected person status. Instead, they go out of their way to single her out but withholding the team ceremony and then permit her to compete with the caveat that if she makes the podium, the entire podium will be denied a medal ceremony. I have never heard of this happening in prior Olympics. I believe they made that decision with the expectation that the Russian ladies would sweep the podium. The skateboarding competition had a bunch of 13 year olds competing, and diving 14 year olds. If that organization doesn't understand the concept of confidentiality and protecting a child's interests, then they should just raise the age to 18 across all disciplines and not deal with kids at all.
Um, the IOC had to let her compete because of the CAS ruling. And didn't the Russian press out Valieva by printing her name (even though everyone knew who it was because of her age)? Blame Russia for this debacle. And she isn't being made a scapegoat. She'd be getting a suspension that someone just a year older would get.
Interesting take...one that ignores key facts that would make a lot of these conclusions wrong, but interesting nonetheless.
You mean all the measures that were taken to ensure that her identity was not disclosed? Basically saying that the person in question had protected status and there was one minor on the team?
That’s because the skating world couldn’t go another day of thinking Weed Jesus was the problem.
The only fault I give the IOC, which is a point I agree with you, is that they allowed protected minors to compete at the Olympics to allow this sort of revelation to happen. But so long as there is a free press who is allowed to ask questions, I know that sort of thinking is dying globally, but at the moment we still have it, they would have wondered why couldn't they reveal which athlete failed the drug test because usually they are identified. But they couldn't identify it because well, you know the rest. People already put two and two together even absent saying the person had "protected status" because people would have figured out the one reason a person couldn't have their identity revealed.
The problem is that if she wasn't a protected person then her identity would have been disclosed. It's a catch-22 situation when she was the ONLY person on the team whose identity COULDN'T be disclosed, per the WADA code. The moment that the reason for the delay became known of course the question was going to be asked "which athlete had the doping violation?" and all parties involved - WADA, RUSADA, the IOC, the ISU - gave the only answer they could per the WADA code - "we cannot disclose that person's identity" and anyone familiar with WADA Code could figure out why the identity wasn't being disclosed. This was a unique set of circumstances which made it impossible for her identity to remain protected. And even after the media (Russian and western both) revealed that the violation was from a minor, the IOC, WADA and the ISU refused to confirm her identity for a couple of days because of that "protected person" status. It was only after everyone in the entire world "knew" that they were like "well, uhm, yeah..." But in the first few days, they were doing their best to abide by the WADA Code and keep her name from becoming public.
Minors have been suspended for violations before. If you're competing at an elite level, you should be bound by the elite rules. If not, no competition for you.
What? Then what was her status at the time of the team event? Are they trying to let her have a medal?According to this article, the ban would start the day of the decision, not the day of the positive test, so that would disqualify Valieva from Milan. Not that she would still be around competing anyway...
Kamila Valiyeva could be banned through 2026 Winter Olympics
Russian figure skater Kamila Valiyeva could be banned through the 2026 Winter Olympics in her doping court case.
From the article..
So, banned for 4 years once the CAS decision goes into effect, plus lose her Euros title and the Olympic results would be disqualified as well - no team gold.
Russia screwed everyone over with their cheating.
Compare this circus with Andrea Raducan. She was stripped of her gold individual medal and the doctors were penalized. Interestingly enough, Romania was allowed to keep its team gold medal. She also received sympathetic press coverage as well, and everyone said, she is just a child. Contrast this with what happened to Valieva. They should have just awarded the team medals and had confidential hearing, especially since they decided that she could compete since there would be irreparable harm since she was favored to win the event. Things would have been very different if they had kept the matter under wraps, and the athletes would have had their medal ceremonies. Instead, there is this protracted process and this kid had to skate knowing that if she made the podium, the other two athletes would not have a ceremony. So before she is able to appeal and do more fact finding, the IOC already decided to proactively penalize her by not allowing her to participate in ANY ceremonies, and also penalize athletes who had nothing to do with the doping.
Except they hadn't already decided she could compete. In fact, I think the IOC/ISU very much wanted her to NOT compete in the Women’s event, hence their appeal of RUSADA's joke of a suspension and adding a 25th woman to the FS.
Baloney. She should have been removed from games entirely and sent home, just like other athletes were sent away based on a drug finding.
What is so difficult for you to understand?
There were no public actions. They merely delayed the medal ceremony - and no one knew for sure why there was a delay initially. We had Vincent Zhou test positive for Covid that day, which took him out of the Men's event, and that's where the initial speculation centered on why the ceremony was delayed until insidethegames broke the news that it was due to a positive doping test.
It happened 22 years ago. I am sure that now such a case would have a different outcome.
Because in that case we know when the medication was given to Raducan. It was after the team event, and before the individual final, and so the results of the team event were left as is. If Raducan had tested positive for the banned substance after the team event, but before the individual event, than the team medal would have been stripped as well. For example, in that same team event it was later discovered that Chinese gymnast, Dong Fangxiao, was only 14 at the time, and therefore, ineligible for the competition. The Chinese were stripped of the bronze medal.
