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The Independent UK
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HISTORICAL FACTS: Valieva listed two legal oxygen boosters on olympic forms d59afb54 52cf 4ad2 9e65 3e4526805361 - Caught on Camera

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Russian figure skater Kamila Valieva listed two legal substances used to improve heart function on an anti-doping control form she filled out before her drug case at the Olympics erupted, according to documents submitted in her case.

The World Anti-Doping Agency filed a brief in the Valieva case stating that the existence of L-carnitine and Hypoxen, though both legal, undercuts the argument that a banned substance, trimetazidine, might have entered the skater's system accidentally.

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