Banned Russian Skater Blames Failed Drug Test On Grandfather's Strawberry Dessert
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Russia's Kamila Valieva, who was banned after testing positive for the banned medication, claimed that a strawberry dessert made by her grandfather on a board he used to crush his pills could have been the cause of her positive doping test.
Russian skater Kamila Valieva claimed that a strawberry dessert made by her grandfather on a board he used to crush his pills could have been the cause of her positive doping test.
Valieva, once a 15-year-old gold medal favourite, was banned for four years last month after testing positive for the banned heart medication trimetazidine in December 2021.
The full report of the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) verdict published on Wednesday stated Valieva claimed the drug could have entered her system through consuming contaminated food shortly before the Russian Championships in 2021, "i.e. through the consumption of a strawberry dessert prepared by her grandfather on the chopping board where he used to crush his medication".
