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Valieva blames dessert for positive test

Valieva blames positive test on strawberry dessert

Kamila Valieva blamed a strawberry dessert for the positive doping test that led to her four-year ban from the sport this week.

Olympics • 07 Feb 24

Kamila Valieva was just 15 when she failed a dope test shortly before the Games in Beijing

Updated USA awarded 2022 figure-skating gold after Valieva ban

The United States will finally be awarded the team figure-skating Olympic gold for 2022 after the disqualification of Russian athlete Kamila Valieva for a doping offence.

Olympics • 30 Jan 24

Kamila Valiyeva is consoled by her coaches Eteri Tutberidze and Daniil Gleikhengauz

Beijing 2022: Bach blasts Valieva's coaching team

International Olympic Committee president Thomas Bach has launched a scathing attack on the team behind Kamila Valieva, the 15-year-old figure skater at the centre of a drugs probe who wilted under the global glare of the Winter Olympics in Beijing on Thursday night.

Olympics • 18 Feb 22

Beijing 2022: Tearful Valieva falls out of contention

Russian teenager Kamila Valieva surprised the figure skating world by stumbling into fourth place in the women's single event on Thursday, ensuring the Olympic medal ceremony could go ahead at the Beijing Games.

Olympics • 17 Feb 22

The status of Kamila Valieva and Russia looms large over the winter games

Beijing 2022: US skaters tell IOC they want medals

The US figure skating team told the president of the International Olympic Committee they would have liked to leave the Beijing Games with their figure skating medals won 10 days ago, the US Olympic committee said.

Olympics • 17 Feb 22

Kamila Valieva performs during the women's short programme event today at the Capital Indoor Stadium

Beijing 2022: Valieva leads the way amid controversy

Emerging from a cloud of controversy and recrimination, 15-year-old Kamila Valieva delivered her lowest score of the season but it was still more than enough to lead the women's figure skating competition after the short programme at the Winter Olympics in Beijing.

Beijing Games • 15 Feb 22

Beijing 2022: Valieva to discover Games fate on Monday

Fifteen-year-old Kamila Valieva will find out her Olympic fate on Monday, one day before the scheduled women's figure skating competition in Beijing, the Court of Arbitration for Sport has announced.

Olympics • 12 Feb 22

Beijing 2022: Russian skater, 15, could be disqualified

Fifteen-year-old Russian figure skater Kamila Valieva faces being thrown out of the Winter Olympics after the International Testing Agency confirmed she tested positive for a banned heart medication in December.

Olympics • 11 Feb 22

Kamila Valieva