Kamila Valieva of Team ROC skates during a figure skating training session at Winter Olympic Games. (Matthew Stockman/Getty Images) Russian skater Kamila Valieva will testify by video Sunday at a court hearing about her doping case.Valieva’s right to compete in the women’s event at the Beijing Olympics will be decided at a hearing at the Court of Arbitration for Sport.Both the World Anti-Doping Agency and the International Testing Agency — on behalf of the IOC — said Friday they would fight the decision by Russia’s anti-doping agency to allow the 15-year-old Valieva to skate.
The Russian agency provisionally banned Valieva Tuesday because she failed a doping test in December. After an appeal, the agency lifted the ban Wednesday.Valieva is the heavy favorite in her event, which begins Tuesday.
She set world record scores this season and landed the first quad jump by a woman at an Olympics as the Russian Olympic Committee won the team event.
The ROC said it will fight to keep that gold medal, and Valieva has passionate support from the Kremlin.The ITA confirmed reports that Valieva tested positive for the banned substance trimetazidine at the Russian national championships in St.