Article 5W56A Valieva team claim positive test may be due to grandfather’s heart medication

Valieva team claim positive test may be due to grandfather’s heart medication

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Sean Ingle in Beijing
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Kamila Valieva's legal team has claimed that her positive drugs test may have come from a contaminated glass of water that contained traces of her grandfather's heart medication.

Speaking after the daily media briefing in Beijing, International Olympic Committee member Denis Oswald confirmed the 15-year-old Russian's explanation for her positive test for the banned angina drug trimetazidine was contamination which happened with a product her grandfather was taking".

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