[2022 Olympic Winter Games] Kamila Valieva Doping Scandal - MEGATHREAD PART 5

The Athlete was represented by her mother and by counsel. According to the Athletes representatives, the Athlete did not use the prohibited substance intentionally, not even for medical reasons and contamination is the most possible route of injection of the prohibited substance in her system, which may have occurred as a result of domestic interaction with her grandfather who uses “Trimetazidine” after heart replacement surgery and usually carries the medication with him. The Athlete’s mother testified that the Athletes grandfather regularly drives her to the first and second daily training sessions, waits for her at the training centre until training is over and then drives her back home where he stays with the Athlete during lunch break. A video recording was viewed during the hearing which was made by the Athletes grandfather according to the Athletes representative, showing the Athlete’s grandfather with a package of “Trimetazidine MV” in his car

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