BEIJING, Feb 15 — Russian figure skater Kamila Valieva told her doping hearing at the Beijing Olympics that she tested positive because of “contamination” from her grandfather’s medicine, a senior IOC member said today.
Russian media said Valieva allegedly drank from the same glass that her grandfather, who has a heart condition, had used. She tested positive in December for trimetazidine, a drug used to treat angina but which is banned by the World Anti-Doping Agency because it can increase blood flow efficiency and help endurance.
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