Daily News | ‘Doping is not tolerated in the Olympics,’ former skater Adam Rippon says, angry Kamila Valieva has been allowed to skate
After years of dealing with drug tests, keeping anti-doping agents apprised of his daily schedule, and tiptoeing around rules, former Olympic figure skater Adam Rippon is angry and incredulous that Russian champion Kamila Valieva was allowed to skate after a positive test for a banned heart medicine.
Valieva tested on Dec. 25, but the results weren’t confirmed until Feb. 7, once she had already skated the short program in the Olympic team event. Her positive test showed trimetazidine, a banned medicine used to treat angina in older adults. It also showed two other heart medicines, which are not banned and which she allegedly disclosed to RUSADA, the Russian anti-doping agency.
Valieva’s team has said she did not intentionally take trimetazidine, also known as TMZ. They said it got into her system when she shared a glass with her grandfather, who takes heart medicine. The anti-doping process included filling out an online calendar four times a year with details of where he would be every day. He had to provide a one-hour daily time slot when he would always be available. If anything changed, he had to send an email with a new location.
, an anti-doping reference site for athletes. A slip up would mean loss of training time, competitions, and funding.That, and perhaps racism, is why Rippon thinks American sprinter Sha’Carri Richardson was not given the same leeway.
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