The crazy thesis of the Valieva clan, how they got their positive doping test! Now a doping expert is dismantling the claim that the illegal heart drug trimetazidine got into the body of team Olympic champion Kamila Valieva (15) through a glass of her grandfather.
The pharmacologist Fritz Sörgel (72): “The amount for a positive doping test cannot get into the body through saliva on a glass rim.” But according to the Russian media, that is exactly what the lawyers of the European champion claimed in the hearing before the International Sports Court (Cas).
It is unclear why the B sample, as is usual in such a case, has not yet been opened. Sörgel also demands this – and also that all doping tests carried out by Valieva since then are examined again. They were all negative.
The Franconian obviously doubts the accuracy of the investigations. “You should do it scientifically in the best possible way. The latest analytical methods increase the possibility of detection by a factor of five compared to those in a doping laboratory,” he says.
Of course, hardly anyone believes that Valieva knowingly doped. A 15-year-old trusts her environment blindly. Intentional doping by their environment would be all the more violent. “That would be a criminal act and ruthless against a young person,” says the scientist.
The fact that Russia’s suspension as a nation with its own flag and anthem, which expires at the end of the year, is probably not at stake due to the new doping case. Comprehensive organized doping cannot be derived from the Valieva case,” says the International Olympic Committee (IOC).
Sörgel says: “Apparently everything is being tried not to bring state doping back into play.” Denis Oswald (74), the chairman of the IOC Disciplinary Commission, says: “Valieva’s lawyers have presented reasons that leave doubts about their guilt.”
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Whatever the outcome, the grandpa’s glass thesis was an own goal. And the one who suffers is Valieva, who probably didn’t come up with the crazy excuse herself. In the hardest time of her life, she is apparently given bad advice.