BEIJING — One other determine skating doping controversy has popped up from the 2022 Olympics.
Spanish determine skater Laura Barquero has change into the fourth athlete to fail a doping take a look at on the Beijing Olympics after testing optimistic for the banned steroid clostebol, the Worldwide Testing Company stated on Tuesday.
Barquero and her companion Marco Zandron completed eleventh within the pairs competitors, which completed on Saturday. The ITA stated her optimistic pattern was given after the brief program on Friday and the case shall be heard by the Courtroom of Arbitration for Sport.
Fifteen-year-old Russian determine skater Kamila Valieva was the main focus of consideration throughout the Olympics as a result of a pattern she gave earlier than the Video games got here again optimistic for a banned substance. Valieva was allowed to maintain skating in Beijing partially as a result of her age offers her additional rights in anti-doping issues. She might but be stripped of the gold medal she gained within the workforce occasion earlier than the lab evaluation was reported.
Valieva fell a number of instances within the free skate portion of the person occasion to go from gold-medal favourite to lacking out on a medal altogether.
The Spanish Olympic Committee stated in a press release that it had obtained notification of the anomalous discovering of a “Spanish athlete” with out naming the skater.
“From the Spanish Olympic Committee we're ready for the results of the counter-test, a consequence that each athlete has the correct to request,” it added.
In addition to Barquero’s case, there have been optimistic exams in Beijing for Iranian Alpine skier Hossein Saveh Shemshaki and two Ukrainians, cross-country skier Valentyna Kaminska and bobsledder Lidiia Hunko.
— With AP
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