MOSCOW, Feb. 11 The US may prosecute the Russians involved in the situation with a positive doping test of Russian figure skater Kamila Valieva, in accordance with the American «Rodchenkov law», Reuters reports citing the head of the United States Anti-Doping Agency (USADA) Travis Tygart. The International Doping Testing Agency (ITA) on Friday reported that doping- Valieva's test dated 25 December 2021 tested positive for trimetazidine. The test result 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. For now, she is allowed to continue competing in the Beijing Olympics. The ITA said the International Olympic Committee (IOC) will appeal the ruling to the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS). «This law has already been used to protect one Olympics, and will continue to do so for others if athletes continue to dope. Clean athletes deserve better , and this girl (Valiyeva) too,” Tygart said. “Whoever was doing this, they definitely should have accelerated the process, it’s not so difficult to do, there should not have been a five-week delay for such a substance. This is a catastrophic failure of the system, the star of the olympic games did not know about her result for such a long time and received it a day after she won gold in the team tournament.You can not hold a position in the government or sports, be able to dope athletes and not bear any responsibility for it. what happened, and this is the reason why the «Rodchenkov law» was passed, — added the head of USADA.
