Russian Figure Skater’s Team Claims Doping Test Result May Be Due to Grandfather’s Heart Medication

Russian Figure Skater’s Team Claims Doping Test Result May Be Due to Grandfather’s Heart Medication
Russia's Kamila Valieva attends a training session prior the Figure Skating Event at the Beijing 2022 Olympic Games in Beijing on Feb. 12, 2022. Manan Vatsyayana/AFP via Getty Images
Isabel van Brugen
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Russian figure skater Kamila Valieva’s earlier positive doping test result may have been due to her grandfather’s heart medication, the teenager’s legal team and an Olympic official said.

Denis Oswald, the International Olympic Committee’s (IOC) permanent chair of the disciplinary commission, said on Tuesday that the teenage athlete claimed her test may have been contaminated with the heart medication her grandfather is taking.

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