Figure skater Valieva no longer received a presidential scholarship due to disqualification
What happens to Kamila Valieva while she awaits the decision on her appeal against the CAS verdict? Little by little, but as far as the figure skater is concerned, they are beginning to comply with the decisions imposed by the verdict of the Court of Arbitration for Sport. In fact, most of these restrictions mean Valieva is kept away from anything related to figure skating. But there are also unexpected details.
So, officially, Kamila Valieva’s presidential allowance has been canceled. In Russia, it is awarded to athletes who place in the top three at the Olympic Games. This happened precisely after the order of the Russian Sports Ministry was issued. And there Valieva was not on the national team list.
Note that since 2011, this scholarship has been paid in Russia and the current monthly payment amount is 52,000 rubles for Olympic champions, 39,000 for silver and 30,000 for bronze medalists of the Olympic Games, TASS notes.
But here is another important moment, also slightly unexpected. Instead of Kamila Valieva, not a single new skater was included in the national team.
“There has been no change regarding the inclusion of anyone in place of Kamila Valieva,” explains R-Sport.
But regarding doping controls, Valieva could be officially worried about this during disqualification periods. But TASS reports with reference to RUSADA that in the first two months of 2024, 36 skaters were tested for doping.
Four took the tests twice. They are Alexandra Stepanova, Ivan Bukin, Arseny Fedotov and Evgeny Semenenko. But the name of Kamila Valieva does not appear on the list of these 36 names. Although in early March 2024, the skater was officially included in the updated anti-doping testing pool of the International Skating Union.
By the way, the head of the ISU spoke about the doping case at the 2024 World Cup. As follows from the documents of the Court of Arbitration for Sport, from 2020 to 2021, Valieva had a total of 60 medications and supplements. And they were all allowed!
What conclusion does the head of the International Skating Union draw? He’s just in shock!
“We were surprised that almost 60 substances were found in 15-year-old Valieva. It’s not only a matter of pure sport, but also a matter of athlete safety,” Kim Jae-yeol said of six dozen officially approved substances.
Well, in all seriousness, he started talking about how important it was for his organization to fight for the purity of the sport.
“The ISU once again emphasizes that it will work more closely with national federations to increase the level of education and commitment to the principles of clean sport,” Kim Jae-yeol said in an interview with Sports. ru.
Once again this man rules the world of figure skating and when told about the 60 substances officially approved by Valieva, he says: oh, how dangerous, oh, we will fight against doping. Logic is clearly not this man’s friend.
Recall that on January 29, 2024, the Court of Arbitration for Sport officially suspended Russian Kamila Valieva from figure skating for a period of four years. The duration of his sentence is counted from December 25, 2021 and the results presented to him from that moment on have been canceled.
The next day, the International Skating Union officially redistributed the medals from the team tournament for the 2022 Olympic Games in Beijing. Russia took third place. This sparked a storm of indignation and undisguised anger, almost rage, in the Canadian team camp. And they filed a lawsuit demanding that bronze medals for the 2022 Olympics be given to them. The ISU has twice stated that everything was calculated correctly. But the Canadian team responded, to put it briefly: don’t worry, we want medals!
As a result, three lawsuits filed by Russia to revise the results of the 2022 Olympics team tournament have been brought to court. And one from Team Canada. All are hooked in the CAS documentation
Well, on February 29, 2024, the heartstrings of the Valieva doping case struck: an appeal against the decision of the Court of Arbitration for Sport in the Kamila case was officially registered with the Swiss Federal Court.
The decision has not yet been announced, the story around Kami continues.
Source: KP
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