Sport-Express reports that Kamila Valieva, who is suspected of breaking anti-doping rules, will be suspended from the competition and not allowed to compete in the individual singles tournament.
However, the news was removed from the site and a retraction was published.
The final decision on the punishment or acquittal will be made after the Games in Beijing, similar to what happened four years ago with curler Alexander Krushelnitsky and bobsledder Nadezhda Sergeeva, as specified by Sport Express.
Sport Express wrote that the ROC team is likely to lose the gold medals in the team tournament and that the IOC is under significant pressure on this matter, partly due to the publication of confidential information on the British portal Inside the Games.
Olga Yermolina, the Press attache of the Russian Figure Skating Federation (FFKR), stated that there would be no official statement today about the doping test of Kamila Valieva.
According to RBC sources, traces of trimetazidine, a banned drug since 2015, were found in Kamila Valieva's doping sample due to its effects on cardiometabolism.
The Guardian previously stated that the substance found during the doping test cannot affect the athlete's results.
It was also previously announced that a legal issue related to an anti-doping test passed by 15-year-old Russian figure skater Kamila Valieva caused the postponement of the awards ceremony for the figure skating team competition at the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing.
At the Beijing Games, Russian athletes do not compete under the country's flag but under the Russian Olympic Committee's flag.
Russian athletes cannot represent their country under the national flag at major competitions, such as the Olympic, Paralympic Games, and World Championships.
On December 9, 2019, the WADA Executive Committee decided to sanction Russia due to manipulations with the database of the Moscow Anti-Doping Laboratory, which falsified test results for submission to WADA. Russia appealed the decision to the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) in Lausanne, which upheld the decision while reducing the period of ineligibility to two years.
