MOSCOW, November 11. /TASS/. The World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) maintained its request for a four-year disqualification for Russian figure skater Kamila Valieva at the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS), a WADA spokesperson told TASS.
On Friday, CAS said that its hearing of the Valieva case had concluded and the CAS Panel was expected to make a decision in January 2024.
"WADA took this appeal to CAS in the interests of fairness for athletes and clean sport. We are pleased to have been able to present our arguments before the CAS Panel and we now await the decision," the WADA spokesperson said.
"We have maintained our request for a four-year period of ineligibility and disqualification of all the athlete’s results from the date of the sample collection, including all her results during the 2022 Olympic Games in Beijing," the spokesperson added.
Hearings of the case took place on September 26-28 and continued on November 9-10, after some additional paperwork had been done. Valieva testified before a CAS panel on November 9.
The 17-year-old figure skater is suspected of taking the banned medication trimetazidine, which was found in a sample that she provided on December 25, 2021. However, the finding wasn’t reported until February 2022, when she was taking part in the Beijing Olympics. By the time it was released, the skater had won the gold in a team event.