Beijing, Feb 11, Sergey Yaremenko. The head of the Russian Olympic Committee (ROC), Stanislav Pozdnyakov, said that the timing of the processing by the laboratory of the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) of a positive doping test of the Beijing Olympic champion Russian figure skater Kamila Valieva raises «serious questions.» On Friday, the International Testing Agency (ITA ) reported that the doping test of Russian woman Kamila Valieva on December 25 tested positive for trimetazidine, it was handed over by the anti-doping laboratory in Stockholm on February 8. The Russian Anti-Doping Agency imposed a temporary suspension on Valiyeva, after the athlete's appeal on February 9, it was removed. At the moment, Valieva is allowed to continue participating in the Beijing Olympics. The ITA said that the International Olympic Committee will appeal this decision, the case will be considered by the Court of Arbitration for Sport. «There are serious questions about the timing of the processing of the sample: between December 25, when it was collected in St. Petersburg, and February 8, when it was processed. By international standards for WADA laboratories, the sample processing time is 20 days from the date of receipt of the sample. It is strange that the sample traveled from St. Petersburg to Stockholm for almost a month. This raises serious questions. It is very likely that someone held the sample until the end of the team tournament for the skaters», — Pozdnyakov told reporters. “I don’t remember a single case in my practice that the result was processed for so long. In my life, as an athlete, I took a test, if not thousands, then hundreds of times. As a leader, I also saw how tests are passed. lasted a month and a half … I would like to get specific answers why this happened,» Pozdnyakov said.
