Russian figure skater Kamila Valieva cleared to compete in Olympics despite failed drug test. Russian figure skater Kamila Valieva can continue to compete at the Beijing Winter Olympics despite testing positive for a banned substance before the Games, an international body ruled Monday.
Russian Skater: What drug did the take| Dies| Male
What drug did the take:
An uncommon heart medication is at the center of an Olympic doping scandal that nearly sidelined a dynamo Russian figure skater before the Court of Arbitration for Sport ruled Monday that Kamila Valieva could compete in the short program of the women’s single skating competition.
International anti-doping officials met Sunday to review the case of Valieva, the 15-year-old star of the Russian Olympic Committee’s figure skating team who tested positive for trimetazidine before the start of the Beijing Olympics. The heart disease medication, which is not approved in the United States, is considered a performance-enhancing drug and banned by the World Anti-Doping Agency.
Dies:
Ekaterina Alexandrovskaya, Olympic figure skater, dies by apparent suicide at 20. … According to Russian news agencies Interfax and TASS, Alexandrovskaya fell out of the window of her 6th-floor apartment in Moscow. “The preliminary cause of death is suicide,” the state-run TASS agency said, according to CBS News.
CAS on Monday upheld the Russian Anti-Doping Agency’s decision to lift a Feb. 9 provisional suspension it imposed against Valieva the day before, CNN reported. The court said Monday that it based its ruling on “exceptional circumstances” — among other issues, Valieva is considered a “protected person” because she is a minor — under the World Anti-Doping Code.
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| Born | 4 February 1967 Moscow, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union |
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| Died | 20 November 1995 (aged 28) Lake Placid, New York, U.S. |
| Residence | Moscow, Russia Simsbury, Connecticut, U.S. |
| Height | 6 ft 0 in (1.83 m) |
| Former partner | Ekaterina Gordeeva |
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On 20 November 1995, Grinkov collapsed and died from a massive heart attack in Lake Placid, New York, while he and Gordeeva were practicing for the upcoming 1995–1996 Stars on Ice tour.
Doctors found that Grinkov had severely clogged coronary arteries (to the point where his arterial opening was reportedly the size of a pinhole), which caused the heart attack; later testing revealed that he also had a genetic risk factor linked with premature heart attacks. The risk factor is called the PLA-2 variant and is also known as the “Grinkov Risk Factor.”
