Winter Olympics: Skating athlete Valieva tested positive for banned substance

The Russian newspaper RBC revealed today (9/2) that figure skating star, Kamila Valieva, tested positive for trimetazidine (a drug used to treat angina) at the Beijing Winter Olympics. The newspaper, however, did not disclose its sources.

The news about the athlete, who became the first woman in figure skating in Beijing to achieve a quadruple turn in the history of the Olympic Games, leaked late at night, while the Russian Olympic Committee refused to comment that the 15-year-old, member of the “golden” ensemble in the figure skating team, she tested positive.

Trimetazidine is on the World Anti-Doping Agency’s (WADA) list of metabolic regulators and is banned both inside and outside the organization.

SOURCE: AMPE

Source: Capital

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