Kamila Valieva has been one of 55 Russian athletes sanctioned for supporting her country's invasion of Ukraine.
The teenage ice skater has already made global headlines this year, following the drugs scandal that rocked the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics. Having been part of the team that won figure skating gold in China, it then emerged that she'd tested positive for trimetazidine.
Her test related to the Russian National Figure Skating Championships in December 2021, prompting outcry as to why it was only coming to light two months later. The saga is still ongoing, with the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) demanding a four-year ban if the Court of Arbitration for Sport rules that the Russian Anti-Doping Agency did not take correct action over Valieva’s positive test.
