Controversy surrounding a failed drug test continues to loom over figure skating at the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics. At the center of the scandal is a heart medication called trimetazidine, prohibited by the World Anti-Doping Agency since 2014; and a 15-year-old Russian figure skater, Kamila Valieva, who shocked the world when she became the first woman to ever land a quadruple jump in the Olympics, doing so twice while competing in the singles free skate portion of the team event.
The young athlete's accomplishment was later sullied, as delayed lab results indicated the presence of trimetazidine in a sample of the skater's urine taken in December 2021. Now, the gold her performance helped claim for the Russian Olympic Committee is under scrutiny.
