Kamila Valieva: Russian can compete at Winter Olympics, guidelines courtroom, regardless of failed medication check
Russian determine skater Kamila Valieva will return to the ice for the ladies’s quick programme, regardless of a courtroom ruling that she examined constructive for a banned substance.
The 15-year-old remains to be topic to disciplinary procedures however has been allowed to compete by a panel of three arbitrators appointed by the Courtroom of Arbitration for Sport, as Russia tries to land a clear sweep of medals within the occasion.
If she wins the occasion, for which she is an awesome favorite, the IOC has stated she won’t be honoured in a medal ceremony till an investigation into the doping allegations is full.
China’s Eileen Gu, 18, gained gold final week in huge air, will attempt to turn out to be the primary freestyle skier to win two golds in a single Winter Olympics when she goes within the slopestyle last.
Gu’s strongest occasion, the halfpipe, takes place later this week.
Kirsty Muir and Katie Summerhayes will attempt to finish Workforce GB’s medal drought after additionally reachign the slopestyle last.
American skier Mikaela Shiffrin has stated she’s going to participate within the girls’s downhill, by which she has solely raced 3 times within the final two years.
Shiffrin will participate within the occasion with a watch on the mixed race later this week, for which she is the present world champion.
Observe dwell protection from the Winter Olympics beneath:
Workforce GB seeking to ‘make corrections’ in bobsleigh after powerful first day in Beijing
ICYMI: Nick Gleeson says he’d push pilot Brad Corridor till his legs fall off and he might want to do all that and extra to get Britain in two-man medal rivalry.
Issues didn’t go to Corridor’s immaculately devised plan on the opening day of males’s bobsleigh competitors in Yanqing, which ended with Britain in eleventh place.
Graeme Massie15 February 2022 01:09
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