RUSADA Files CAS Appeal Seeking ‘Appropriate Consequences’ for Valieva

Kamila Valieva of the Russian Olympic Committee during a training session at the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing on Feb. 13, 2022. Evgenia Novozhenina/Reuters

The Russian Anti-Doping Agency (RUSADA) has performed an about-turn in the case of Kamila Valieva and asked the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) to sanction the figure skater and set aside a ruling from RUSADA’s own disciplinary tribunal.

Sport’s highest court said on Friday that RUSADA had lodged an appeal seeking a ruling that would sanction Valieva after the disciplinary tribunal of Russia’s anti-doping body had found the teenager not guilty of any doping infraction.