MOSCOW, Feb 18 The World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) did not consider sufficient evidence the innocence of figure skater Kamila Valieva, according to the reasoning part of the decision of the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS). The doping test of Valieva, taken at the end of December, gave a positive result. The International Olympic Committee (IOC), WADA and the International Skating Union (ISU) filed a protest with the CAS, which was rejected. The figure skater was allowed to participate in the individual Olympic tournament in Beijing. Representatives of the athlete stated during the meeting that the banned drug trimetazidine could have entered her body in a domestic way, as it was taken by Camila's grandfather, who drove her to training. «The athlete did not provide independent or documentary evidence that her grandfather took trimetazidine. There is not evidence of his purchase of the drug, no prescriptions. There is no scientific evidence that the concentration of trimetazidine found in the sample can be explained by accidental exposure to the drug,» WADA states in paragraph 78 of the CAS reasoning decision. won gold and silver, the third was the Japanese Kaori Sakamoto. Kamila Valieva, who was in the lead after the short program, took fourth place.
