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Kamila Valieva: 5 Things to Know About Russian Figure Skater Banned From the Olympics

The 17-year-old athlete tested positive for a prohibited drug in 2021, which ultimately banned her from competition for four years.

Per NBC, Her legal team has also maintained the claim that her grandfather had been the one taking the drug for his heart condition and may have contaminated a strawberry dessert that she consumed around the time she was competing in 2021 competitions. The CAS panel reportedly noted that Kamila was an “honest, straightforward and credible witness,” but, nonetheless, ruled that her argument had no “concrete” evidence to support the claim. After her drug test was uncovered, Kamila’s gold medal that she helped the Russian Olympic Committee receive was given to the U.S. team in 2024, according to the Associate Press.

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