Doping Test

China stressed its "zero-tolerance" approach to doping on Tuesday as the Winter Olympics moved toward its closing stages under the cloud of legal proceedings involving Russian athlete Kamila Valieva. Yan Jiarong, the spokesperson for Beijing's organizing committee, told the media that the country was implementing strict doping policies. Meanwhile, the…

Register now for FREE unlimited access to Reuters.comBEIJING, Feb 15 (Reuters) - The organisers of the Paris 2024 Olympics said on Tuesday they want to make sure the doping case of Russian teenage figure skater Kamila Valieva, which has rocked the Beijing Olympics, does not cast a shadow on their…

(BEIJING) — Kamila Valieva’s lawyers say the Russian skater failed a doping test before the Olympics because of contamination from medication her grandfather was taking. Denis Oswald says part of the 15-year-old’s defense is “contamination which happened with a product her grandfather was taking.” The argument was made at a…

The Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) ruled on Monday to allow Russian figure skater Kamila Valieva to continue competing in the 2022 Winter Olympics after a urine sample she submitted in December 2021 tested positive for trimetazidine, an anti-angina drug the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) prohibits athletes from using…

Russian figure skater Kamila Valieva's reported use of a heart medication that's banned by doping regulators puts her among a small group of top-flight athletes who’ve faced similar allegations in recent years. Last week, Valieva became the first woman to land a quadruple jump in Olympic competition, which helped propel the Russian Olympic…

Legal troubles for the coach and others in Russian figure skater Kamila Valieva’s orbit could emerge in the United States even after her doping case from the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics has been resolved. Anti-doping experts say the episode falls under the scope of a recently enacted U.S. law that…

American sprinter Sha’Carri Richardson spoke out about the Court of Arbitration for Sport’s (CAS’s) controversial decision to let Russian figure skater Kamila Valieva continue competing in the Beijing Olympics despite a positive test for a banned substance. Valieva, who recently became the first woman to land a quadruple jump on…

The US sprinter Sha’Carri Richardson has questioned why the Russian figure skater Kamila Valieva has been allowed to compete at the Olympics while she was banned for a similar offence. On Monday, the court of arbitration for sport (Cas) ruled 15-year-old Valieva could continue to compete at the Winter Olympics…

Russia isn’t technically competing at the Winter Olympics in Beijing this year. Instead athletes are representing the “Russian Olympic Committee,” under a nondescript white flag bearing the Olympic torch, a penalty imposed for the widespread state-sponsored doping program. It was designed to dissuade the nation from using performance enhancing drugs,…

Russian figure skater Kamila Valieva is cleared to compete ahead of the women's individual event in her discipline. Photo: AP Photo/Bernat Armangue After days of being the subject of a doping scandal, 15-year-old Russian figure skater Kamila Valieva has been cleared to compete at the Winter Olympic Games in Beijing, a…