US EditionRussian figure skater Valieva loses last appeal in Beijing Olympics doping case
The Swiss Federal Tribunal upheld Kamila Valieva's four-year ban for doping at the 2022 Olympics, rejecting contamination claims and ordering her to pay over $18,000 in costs.
- On Thursday, the Swiss Federal Tribunal dismissed Kamila Valieva's final appeal and upheld the four-year ban imposed last year for her 2022 Beijing doping case.
- The case began when Valieva's lawyers argued contamination from a strawberry dessert, while a veteran scientist's 2022 experiments suggested contamination was possible but intentional use more likely.
- At CAS last year, judges disqualified Kamila Valieva from Beijing events, downgrading the Russian team and elevating the United States to Olympic champion; those medals were presented at the Paris Summer Games.
- Now aged 19, Kamila Valieva resumed training last week ahead of her ban expiring in December but cannot qualify for Milan in February at the 2026 Winter Olympics; the court ordered her to pay 7,000 Swiss francs.
- At the Swiss supreme court, Valieva's lawyers cited a September 2024 Associated Press article alleging World Anti-Doping Agency procedural fraud, but five Swiss federal judges called these fresh arguments conjecture in their verdict published on Thursday.
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The Russian Kamila Valieva was considered a gift of the century in figure skating – and then as a 15-year-old she was the main figure of the doping scandal at the 2022 Winter Games. Despite positive doping tests, she was allowed to start and broke in.
The 2026 Winter Olympics are approaching, but in the meantime, the final steps from the Games four years ago are still being worked on. Russian figure skater Kamila Valieva has lost the final legal case against her doping ban.
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Russian figure skater Valieva loses last appeal in Beijing Olympics doping case
Russian figure skater Kamila Valieva has lost her last appeal in a doping case that rocked the 2022 Beijing Olympics where she shaped to be a breakout star.
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