MOSCOW, February 18 anti-doping laboratory, which explained the delay in the analysis of the figure skater Kamila Valieva's sample due to personnel problems caused by the pandemic. Valieva's doping test, 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, he postponed holding the awards ceremony if Valieva placed in the top three until after the investigation into the Russian figure skater's case.» an athlete who was put in an extremely difficult position,» the CAS said in a statement. On Thursday at the Olympics in women's single skating, Russians Anna Shcherbakova (255.95 points) and Alexandra Trusova (251.73) won gold and silver, the Japanese became third Kaori Sakamoto (233.13). Kamila Valieva, who was in the lead after the short program, took fourth place (224.09).
