Kamila Valieva, the 15-year-old figure skating star from Russia who has already made history at the 2022 Beijing Olympics, has reportedly tested positive for a banned drug.
The ceremony to present Kamila and her teammates with their gold medals for the figure skating team event was postponed for “unexplained legal reasons” and now Russian media is reporting about the positive test, according to ESPN. Click inside for more details… Kamila reportedly tested positive for Trimetazidine, which is often used to treat chest pain.
A Russian journalist named Vasily Konov says that the sample was taken two months ago. He wrote on social media, “The drug trimetazidine does not help an athlete in any way.
At all. It was found in one single sample in December. A minuscule amount. Nothing in her samples before or since. There is no doping in the conventional sense.
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