Three judges from the Court of Arbitration for Sport will hear doping case against Russian figure skater Kamila Valieva. One of them was once picked by Maria Sharapova’s legal team for her appeal over a similar performance-enhancing drug. Beijing2022
Neither side in the Valieva case was allowed to pick a preferred judge — as they would in a typical case outside the Olympics — but the Russians might be happy with the American.
In Sharapova’s appeal at the Switzerland-based court in 2016, Benz was chosen on behalf of the Russian tennis star to serve on the three-judge panel. She had been banned for two years after testing positive for the banned heart medication meldonium at the Australian Open. CAS ruled she was not entirely at fault and her ban was cut to 15 months.
The Valieva case is also not the first involving Russian athletes and Benz as a judge for Olympic eligibility. The unusual case has caused havoc at the Olympics. The skater’s positive test came from a sample taken six weeks earlier and was flagged by a laboratory in Sweden only on Monday — after she skated andBenz once worked as a lawyer for the United States Olympic Committee, but the case he will hear Sunday has no impact on the team event, where the Americans would stand to be elevated to gold if the Russians are disqualified.
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