Kamila Valieva can continue competing at the Olympics despite testing positive for a banned substance, showing once again that the IOC and Court of Arbitration for Sport yields to Russia, writes Rosenberg_Mike
Whether banning Russia in the first place was fair or not, the goal behind it was simple: The IOC had to take a stand against state-sponsored doping. But it has done so in such haphazard and incompetent fashion that the goal got lost. Now, here is CAS, essentially ruling that Valieva can continue to competeShe is just a minor and therefore “protected.”
CAS also ruled that the Russian Anti-Doping Agency and World Anti-Doping Code clearly have different standards of evidence and lower sanctions for “protected persons,” but are “silent with respect to provisional suspension imposed on protected persons.”Letting RUSADA decide the standard is like letting mob bosses make racketeering laws. But the IOC and CAS have repeatedly given Russia latitude it does not deserve. According to the International Testing Agency, Valieva submitted a test on Dec.
Well, hey, stuff happens. You open your Christmas gifts, you’re excited, and you forget to run a drug test for seven weeks. It happens to the best of countries. When Valieva tested positive on Feb. 7, RUSADA suspended her provisionally. She requested a hearing. RUSADA un-suspended her.The situation is pretty obvious to anybody who wants to see it. The Russian doping program came to light after the 2014 Olympics in Sochi, and eight years later, Russia is still a rogue Olympic state, doing what it pleases because it can. The IOC and CAS never dealt with this properly before.
In the middle of this all is a 15-year-old kid who skated extraordinarily well, and probably would have done so even if she hadn’t taken drugs. There is no way to know, of course, and yes: The rules are the rules. But Valieva is almost certainly a victim here, too. She should be competing cleanly. The IOC and CAS failed her, just as they failed the rest of the world. There are thousands of Olympians who should, in the most fundamental sense, be protected people.
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