RUSADA Rules Figure Skater Valieva Did Not Commit Doping Offense: WADA

Russian figure skater Kamila Valieva attends a meeting of President Vladimir Putin with the country's Olympians and Paralympians at the Kremlin in Moscow on April 26, 2022. Maxim Shemetov/Reuters

The Russian Anti-Doping Agency (RUSADA) investigation into figure skater Kamila Valieva’s failed drug test has ruled that the teenager was not guilty of any doping infraction, the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) said on Friday.

WADA said in a statement that RUSADA had determined that although Valieva had committed an anti-doping rule violation, she bore “no fault or negligence” for it.