WADA filed a brief in the Valieva case stating that the existence of the two legal drugs undercuts the argument that a banned substance might have entered the skater’s system accidentally.
Kamila Valieva,the 15-year-old Russian competing under a doping cloud in Beijing,has qualified first for the women’s free skating final.
Any time the IOC confronts an issue of diplomatic magnitude mid-Games,in this instance Kamila Valieva’s reprieve,it sees to it that it becomes somebody else’s problem.
Kamila Valieva’s positive result was a chilling reminder that female athletes in certain sports have long been considered disposable in countries that support state-sponsored doping.
Shayna Jack’s coach Dean Boxall believes she will return a better,more resilient swimmer as she tries to make it back to the Dolphins squad for a packed 2022.
Retired swimmer and dual Olympian Brenton Rickard says he feels “fully vindicated” by the decision,but that the case has taken “a huge toll on my life”.
Great Britain’s 4x100 metre relay team face being stripped of their Olympic silver medals after CJ Ujah was suspended for an alleged anti-doping breach.
Tadej Pogacar claimed another victory in the 18th stage to edge closer to retaining his title as a cloud of doping suspicions hung over the world’s greatest cycling race.
There is a risk the Tokyo Olympics could become the uber-spreader event of the COVID-19 age. Doomsdayist? Perhaps,but nobody has a crystal ball.
The Russian flag is barred from the Olympics in a doping dispute. You wouldn’t know it to look at the Russian uniforms.
Bronson Xerri’s predicament appears to be a simple case of intentional doping - but how did a young NRL player get into that situation in the first place?