BEIJING – Olympic officials said they would welcome an anti-doping investigation into the Russian doctors, coaches and family members in the entourage of 15-year-old figure skater Kamila Valieva.
Valieva’s future at the Beijing Olympics hangs in the balance after the stunning revelation she had tested positive for a banned substance before winning the team event on Monday, but that the positive drug test report took more than six weeks to be made public.
She is one of the youngest athletes ever to test positive for doping at the Olympics.
Fans of figure skating, athletes and anti-doping advocates have expressed outrage over a teenager being at the centre of a doping controversy with a positive test for a drug used to treat heart conditions like angina.
Many have questioned the role of the adults around the teenage skater and the continuing scourge of Russian doping in international sports.
The Kremlin calls Valieva’s case a “misunderstanding”.
