World Agency seeks four-year ban for Russian Olympic skater Kamila Valieva

The Court of Arbitration for Sport’s Monday announcement that the World Anti-Doping Agency is seeking a four-year ban of Russian Olympic figure skater Kamila Valieva does not mean the months-long doping saga is going to end soon.

"Unless the case is expedited, which should happen, this could take awhile even though it's a pretty straightforward case," U.S. Anti-Doping Agency CEO Travis Tygart told USA TODAY Sports Monday morning. “Una메이저놀이터추천der normal CAS process, it easily could be the end of Since it seems that the Russian strategy is to delay and avoid, if that continues at CAS, this easily could be another nine to 18 months.” 

Last week, Tygart proposed that theBeijing Winter Olympic athletes who still have not received their medals due to excruciating Russian delays in the Valieva case finally could be celebrated with a medal ceremony at the Summer Olympics in Paris, possibly at the opening ceremony. 

While that is only a suggestion, the idea was met very positively by several people within the international Oly메이저안전놀이터mpic community, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because of the subjective and uncertain nature of the matter.

Nine months ago at the Beijing Games, Russia won the gold medal, the United States won the silver medal and Japan won the bronze in the team figure skating competition. The following day, those results were thrown into disarray when Valieva, the then-15-year-old star of the Russian team, was found to have tested positive for the banned substance trimetazidine the pre안전놀이터추천vious December, forcing the unprecedented cancellation of the event’s medal ceremony.

There could be a re-ordering of the medals if Valieva were to be disqualified by CAS, with the United States moving up to take the gold, followed by Japan and Canada, the fourth-place finishers in the competition.

But how the CAS panel will rule is anyone’s guess. 

“It’s absolutely possible under the rules that it’s a four-year sanction but it’s also possible under the rules th메이저사이트추천at it’s no sanction or anything in between,” Tygart said. “Hopefully the case will be presented in an open and transparent way to give confidence in the final outcome, especially for the fans and the teams who competed and who are waiting for their medals.”