Figure skating’s great quad revolution just took a dark turn
Photo: Anadolu Agency/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images . Next week’s Olympic women’s figure-skating competition was thrown into chaos Tuesday when, soon after the mysterious postponement of the medal ceremony for the team event, reports surfaced that an athlete on the gold-medal-winning Russian Olympic Committee team had failed a drug test.
Valieva’s failed test somehow sat unreported until the day after the team event concluded. Because the testing sample was taken well ahead of the Olympics, the International Olympic Committee and ITA don’t have jurisdiction. It instead falls to the Russian Anti-Doping Agency, which imposed an Olympic suspension on Valieva on Tuesday only to lift it a day later and reinstate her.
How is the arbitration likely to play out? “I suspect there will be a ‘therapeutic-use exemption’ argument in front of CAS today or maybe an inadvertent use with time already served,” Cooper said, though he doubted there was a legitimate case for a therapeutic-use exemption. Because she is only 15 years old, Valieva is considered a “protected person” by WADA, which means there is no requirement to make her failed test public — it only was in this case because the information had leaked to the media — and she herself likely can’t be held accountable for the drugs in her system. Valieva’s young age could provide just the loophole CAS needs to allow her to compete.
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