/ 11 February 2022

Positive drug tests and the Winter Olympics

Image source: Getty
Image source: Getty

There have been plenty of complaints about the food, but the first major scandals of the Winter Olympics have surfaced. Reports say Russian Olympic figure skater Kamila Valieva has tested positive for a banned substance – something the International Olympic Committee has refused to confirm. The 15yo made history on Monday when she became the first figure skater to execute a quadruple jump. But yesterday, Russian media reported that Valieva tested positive for trimetazidine – a chest pain drug that can be used to boost endurance – before the Games. It’s the same drug that saw Chinese swimmer Sun Yang handed a 4-year ban in 2014. And Iranian flagbearer Hossein Saveh-Shemshaki has been suspended from competition after testing positive for an anabolic steroid. The alpine skier is one of 2 athletes from Iran at the Games.

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