Beijing, Feb 15, Andrey Simonenko.The International Olympic Committee (IOC) does not have a final verdict on whether Russian figure skater Kamila Valieva was doped or not, IOC member Denis Oswald said. Kamila Valieva dated December 25, 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. The International Olympic Committee, the World Anti-Doping Agency and the International Skating Union filed a protest with the Court of Arbitration for Sport. On Monday, the court rejected the appeals and allowed Valiyeva to compete at the Olympics. «Before Rio, it was decided that not a single Russian athlete would take part in the Games until it was proven that he had not taken doping. This was done by each international federation. And those athletes who competed in Rio had the right to compete there, they passed numerous doping tests. Here we do not have a final verdict whether the athlete (Valiev) took doping or not. Therefore, these situations cannot be compared, «Oswald told reporters. In 2016, two parts of the report of the independent commission of the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) led by Richard McLaren on the use of doping by Russian athletes were published. It was alleged that more than a thousand athletes were involved in the manipulation of doping samples at various tournaments in 30 sports, including the Sochi Olympics, and that Russia allegedly had a state doping support system that covered athletes. Later, the IOC created two commissions to recheck the data from the McLaren report. One of them, led by Samuel Schmid, confirmed the existence of “systematic violations of anti-doping rules and the anti-doping system in Russia” during the Sochi Olympics, but did not find evidence of support by the highest state authorities of the Russian Federation for the “doping system”. At the 2016 Games in Rio de Janeiro, Russian athletes won 55 medals — 19 gold, 17 silver and 19 bronze medals.
