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Kamila Valieva’s failed drugs test exposes Russia and IOC’s broken relationship

The story becomes a welfare story as well as a doping one due to the Russian being just 15 years old

The Independent UK

Kamila Valieva: The key questions about Olympic figure skater after failed drug test

The figure skating superstar could be barred from the Winter Games after she tested positive for a banned drug

The Independent UK

Kamila Valieva: Russian 15-year-old figure skater may face Winter Olympics ban after failing drugs test

Kamila Valieva is still scheduled to compete in next week’s women’s singles competition despite testing positive for a banned heart medication in the lead-up to the Games

The Independent UK

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Russian Skater Valieva Failed Drug Test Taken before Her Golden Games Debut

Figure skating sensation Kamila Valieva won a gold medal having earlier failed a drug test and Olympic officials will fight Russia's decision to let her compete at the Winter Games, the International Testing Agency (ITA) said on Friday. The 15-year-old's gold medal and Games future now hangs in the balance…

Asharq Al-Awsat

Kamila Valieva: International Testing Agency confirms Russian skater failed drugs test for banned substance

Russia’s 15-year-old figure skater Kamila Valieva failed a drugs test back in December and was provisionally suspended from all competition.

Evening Standard

Games testers confirm Russian skater Valieva tested positive for banned substance

Russian skating sensation Kamila Valieva tested positive for a banned substance, Games testers confirmed Friday, and the IOC is now appealing against Russia's decision to allow her to continue competing in Beijing.

France 24

ITA Confirms Kamila Valieva’s Drug Test Returned Results of Banned Substance

The 15-year-old ROC figure skater’s sample returned a result for the prohibited substance trimetazidine.

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Russian figure skater Kamila Valieva, 15, fails drug test at Winter Olympics 2022

Valieva helped the Russian Olympic Committee to win gold in the team figure skating at the 2022 Winter Olympics on Monday, but the medal ceremony had been put on hold

Daily Mirror

Urgent hearing to decide fate of 15-year-old Russian figure skater after she failed drug test

Valieva’s positive test was confirmed on Tuesday, one day after she starred in the Russian Olympic Committee’s victory in the team event in Beijing

Wales Online

Urgent hearing to decide fate of Russian figure skater after failing drug test

Kamila Valieva is still scheduled to compete in next week’s women’s singles competition.

The Independent UK

ROC skater Kamila Valieva tested positive for banned substance, ITA confirms

The 15-year-old Russian skater Kamila Valieva tested positive for the banned heart medication trimetazidine in a sample that was collected on Christmas Day

The Guardian - US

Urgent hearing to decide if Valieva can skate at Olympics

Russian figure skater Kamila Valieva’s right to compete in the women’s event at the Beijing Olympics will be decided at an urgent hearing at the Court of Arbitration for Sport

The Independent UK

Winter Olympics day seven: skeleton, ice hockey, curling and more – as it happened

Ayumu Hirano won snowboard halfpipe gold, Suzanne Schulting defended her 1,000m short track title and Christopher Grotheer won the skeleton

The Guardian - US

Kamila Valieva: How the face of the Winter Olympics became embroiled in another potential Russian scandal

A gold-medal ceremony was postponed amid allegations that the teenager failed a pre-Games doping test

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Los Angeles Times

Helene Elliott: Nathan Chen fulfills his Olympic dream by winning figure skating gold

BEIJING — Twenty years after a young Nathan Chen watched the figure skating competition at his hometown Salt Lake City Olympics and decided he wanted to be like them, a virtuoso Chen became an Olympic gold medalist.

The Independent UK

Johnson, Jones highlight most infamous Olympic doping cases

Russian star Kamila Valieva is at the center of the biggest doping story of the Beijing Games after Russian newspaper RBC reported that the figure skater tested positive for a banned substance before the Olympics

Evening Standard

Winter Olympics: Russia’s 15-year-old figure skater Kamila Valieva immersed in Beijing 2022 doping row

Russia’s teen starlet Kamila Valieva has found herself immersed in a Winter Olympics doping row following the team figure skating competition.

The Guardian - UK

Kamila Valieva: IOC refuses to confirm if teen skater is at centre of doping controversy

Multiple reports and sources have named Valieva, 15, as the athlete believed to have tested positive for a banned heart drug before the Winter Olympics

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The Independent UK

Winter Olympics: Russia faces questions over doping reports and figure skating controversy

Olympic organisers said they will not comment on ‘speculation’ amid reports that a Russian figure skater tested positive for a banned substance before arriving in Beijing

The Independent UK

EXPLAINER: The drug behind Russia's Olympic skating case

The first big doping case at the games involves one of its biggest stars

The Independent UK

Olympics Live: Russian skater positive for banned medication

Olympic figure skating favorite Kamila Valieva tested positive for a banned heart medication before her arrival at the Beijing Olympics, the Russian newspaper RBC reported, putting in jeopardy the team gold medal that she helped win earlier this week

The Independent UK

Report: Valieva tests positive for banned heart medication

Olympic favorite Kamila Valieva tested positive for a banned heart medication before her arrival at the Beijing Olympics, the Russian newspaper RBC reported, putting in jeopardy the team gold medal that she helped win earlier this week

The Guardian - US

Winter Olympics day six – as it happened

Day six of XXIV Olympic Winter Games

Daily Mirror

Russian skater, 15, pulls off never-before-seen move twice in same Winter Olympics event

Teenage sensation Kamila Valieva has now made history twice at these Games, despite only making her international figure skating debut just six months ago

The Independent UK

Kamila Valieva: Teenage Russian figure skater makes striking Olympic debut

Valieva is nicknamed ‘Miss Perfect’ and is already anointed by many judges as the greatest female skater in history

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