MOSCOW, February 16 a video in which he claimed to have used trimetazidine, the New York Times reports. Doping test Valieva, taken at the end of December, gave a positive result. The Court of Arbitration for Sport allowed the skater to participate in the individual Olympic tournament in Beijing. However, the award ceremony, if Valieva gets into the top three, will not be held during the Olympics, it will take place after the end of the investigation into the case of the Russian figure skater. According to the source, the video provided by the grandfather was filmed in the car. Valieva's grandfather showed a package of medicine to the camera and stated that he periodically took trimetazidine when he became ill. The newspaper also reports that the athlete's mother, in her testimony, stated that the grandfather accompanied the figure skater to training every day and stayed with her until her mother returned from work. Valieva’s mother also said that her daughter was taking hypoxen to improve heart function. On Tuesday, International Olympic Committee (IOC) spokesman Denis Oswald told reporters that the substance found in Valieva’s doping test entered the body along with the product that her grandfather used . As the press service of the IOC later reported, Oswald repeated the information published in the press.
