MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russia’s anti-doping agency RUSADA said on Monday that a laboratory in Stockholm had promised in January to prioritize a test conducted in December on Russian figure skater Kamila Valieva but provided the results only on Feb. 7 during the Olympics, TASS news agency reported.
Sport’s highest court on Monday cleared 15-year-old Russian figure skater Valieva to continue competing in the Beijing Winter Olympics, but the teenager’s doping violation remained a stain on the Games.
The World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) blamed RUSADA for not asking the laboratory to fast-track Valieva’s sample in order for it to be analysed before the Olympics.
(Reporting by Vladimir Soldatkin; Editing by Mark Trevelyan)
