
MOSCOW, Feb. 23 Steve Cohen of the Democratic Party submitted a bill to the US Congress on granting permanent residency status to Russian doping whistleblowers in the Russian Federation, according to the US Anti-Doping Agency (USADA) Twitter page. fair play,” USADA head Travis Tygart was quoted as saying. Earlier, Tygart said that the United States could prosecute Russians involved in the situation with a positive doping test of Russian figure skater Kamila Valieva, in accordance with the American “Rodchenkov law”. It was noted that the Department of Independent Investigations of the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) would check Valieva's entourage in the case of a positive doping test. took second place. Later it became known that Valieva's doping test, taken at the end of December, gave a positive result. The Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS), despite the appeals of the International Olympic Committee (IOC), the International Skating Union (ISU) and WADA, allowed the Russian woman to the personal tournament of the 2022 Games, in which the 15-year-old athlete became fourth. The awards ceremony for the winners of the team competition was not held.

