Kamila Valieva claims failed drugs test was result of drinking from grandfather’s cup

The 15-year-old has been cleared to compete regardless of her optimistic take a look at (Image: Getty)

Kamila Valieva’s authorized staff has claimed that her failed medication take a look at could have been the results of a contaminated glass of water containing traces of her grandfather’s coronary heart remedy.

The 15-year-old Russian skater was provisionally suspended from competing on the Winter Olympics final week however was cleared to compete after a ruling by the Courtroom of Arbitration for Sport on Monday.

Sport’s highest court docket dominated that Valieva, as a minor, was a ‘protected particular person’ and that stopping her from skating would trigger ‘irreparable hurt’.

Valieva has seemed tearful at instances throughout apply classes (Image: REX)

The teenager may nonetheless be cleared and Worldwide Olympic Committee member Denis Oswald has now revealed Valieva’s rationalization for her optimistic take a look at for the banned angina drug trimetazidine.

Based on Oswald, the Russian has argued that the ‘contamination occurred with a product her grandfather was taking’, together with her authorized staff making that argument when her case was heard by CAS.

Russian newspaper Pravda report that Valieva’s lawyer, Anna Kozmenko, mentioned: ‘There may be fully alternative ways the way it obtained into her physique.

‘For instance, her grandfather drank one thing from a glass, saliva obtained in, this glass was by some means later utilized by an athlete.

‘Or the drug lay down on some floor, traces remained, the drug lay down on this floor, which the athlete then drank.’

Valieva is the favorite for gold in Tuesday’s determine skating brief programme, and he or she gave a short interview to Russian tv earlier than the competitors.

‘These [past] days have been very tough for me,’ Valieva advised Russia’s Channel One.

‘It’s as if I don’t have any feelings left. I'm joyful however on the similar time I'm emotionally drained.’

Valieva was in a position to apply after the CAS ruling on Monday however on a number of events seemed tearful on the ice, notably after one heavy fall, whereas the IOC have confirmed that there might be no medal ceremony if she finishes within the prime three.

Explaining that call, Oswald – who's the everlasting chair of the IOC’s disciplinary fee – mentioned: ‘We need to allocate the medal to the proper particular person.

‘So long as the choice relating to the doping case of this athlete has not been clarified – she has delivered a optimistic pattern – till we've got a transparent state of affairs then we won't allocate the medals.’

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