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Accepting complaints from IOC and others for CAS Wariewa’s “cancellation of qualification” | Figure skating | NHK News

A leading figure skating girl at the Beijing Olympics, ROC = Russian Olympic Committee Camilla Wariewa has lifted the temporary suspension of qualification despite a positive reaction for a banned drug in a doping test. , CAS = Court of Arbitration for Sport announced on the 11th that the IOC = International Olympic Committee and WADA = World Anti-Doping Agency have filed complaints against this decision and accepted it.

On the 8th of this month, the Beijing Olympics figure skating group did not hold a medal award ceremony, and it was reported that ROC’s 15-year-old Camilla Wariewa, who won a gold medal from some overseas media, was suspected of doping violations. I did.

Regarding this, the ITA = international test organization, which is in charge of the doping test of the competition, said that Wariewa had a positive reaction of the prohibited drug “trimetazidine” which has a blood flow promoting effect in the doping test in December last year, and this month the test In response to the arrival of the results, the Russian Anti-Doping Agency suspended the qualification temporarily, but after that, protests from the Wariewa player side were accepted, and it was announced that the disposition was lifted.

Then, on the 11th, CAS announced that the IOC and WADA had alleged that the disposition of Wariewa was lifted and that the decision to continue participation was dissatisfied and that it was accepted.

Wariewa is a leading player in figure skating and women’s singles, and has contributed to winning the team’s gold medal by succeeding in a quadruple jump for the first time in the Olympics, and is attracting attention as one of the gold medal candidates in the individual competition starting on the 15th. increase.

RUSADA statement “has no effect on this decision”

RUSADA = Russian Anti-Doping Agency issued a statement on the 11th on a series of problems of Wariewa.

Among them, Wariewa was temporarily suspended from qualification, but after that, “a hearing was held at the request of the player’s agent, and it was decided to cancel the suspension. It was an independent body that made this decision, and we have no effect on this decision. “

In addition, it is said that the time it took for Wariewa to get the test result in December last year is due to the re-emergence of the new coronavirus.