US EditionRussian figure skater Valieva competes 4 years on from doping case during Olympics
- On Saturday, Kamila Valieva returned to competition at the Russian Jumping Championships in Moscow after her four-year ban expired on Dec. 25, 2025.
- Her positive test for trimetazidine emerged after the December 2021 championships, and Valieva told an arbitration panel at the February 2022 Beijing Olympics the result came from contamination linked to her grandfather's heart medicine.
- In Moscow's Russian jumping championships, Valieva began with a quadruple toeloop and qualified for Sunday's semifinals, placing sixth in the duets jump event.
- But Valieva cannot qualify for Milano Cortina 2026, removing any short-term Olympic impact, and now aged 19 she must wait until the 2030 Winter Games for eligibility.
- Coaches and supporters rallied, with Tatiana Tarasova and Alexander Zhulin praising Valieva's prospects, as she kept active with charity work and a December song festival.
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Figure skating-Russia's Valieva returns to competition after four-year doping ban | Sports-Games
Figure skating-Russia's Valieva returns to competition after four-year doping ban Kamila Valieva's comeback got off to an inauspicious start, as the former Olympic prodigy finished sixth in the semi-finals of the Russian Jumping Championships on Sunday in her first competition since serving a four-year doping ban. The 19-year-old had a bobble on the landing of her opening quadruple toe loop, fell on her second and then finished with a messy do…
Russian figure skating star Kamila Valieva ended her four-year ban on Saturday when she also performed a quadruple jump in Moscow.
Russian figure skater Kamila Valieva returned to competitive skating after serving a four-year doping ban, impressing judges with her performance at the national championships but falling behind her rivals in points due to poor execution. Her performance at the Russian championships in Moscow is her first since serving her suspension last December.
At the heart of a global controversy at Beijing's 2022 Olympic Games, the young Russian has served the very heavy sentence imposed by the authorities after its positive control, and can now compete on the...
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Russian figure skater Valieva competes 4 years on from doping case during Olympics
Russian figure skater Kamila Valieva has returned to competition following her doping ban. She made a statement with a quadruple jump nearly four years after disputes over her positive test overshadowed the Beijing Olympics.
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