ZHANGJIAKOU, China (AP) — Russian determine skater Kamila Valieva listed two authorized substances used to enhance coronary heart operate on an anti-doping management type she stuffed out earlier than her drug case on the Olympics erupted. That’s in line with paperwork submitted in her case. The World Anti-Doping Company filed a short within the Valieva case stating that the existence of authorized medication L-carnitine and Hypoxen undercuts the argument that the banned substance trimetazidine may need entered the skater’s system by chance. Valieva examined optimistic for a banned remedy in December however the outcome solely got here to gentle after she had helped the Russians win staff gold final week. She’s being allowed to skate in Beijing as a result of at 15 years previous she is a protected minor.
SKIING WITH SOUL
Freestyler skier Alex Corridor led a 1-2 American end within the males’s Olympic slopestyle competitors with a trick on his first run the place he stopped his rotation midair and turned within the different route earlier than softly touchdown. Corridor’s opening run drew a rating of 90.01. His teammate Nick Goepper turned in a artistic run on his second move to earn silver. Jesper Tjader of Sweden took dwelling bronze. The American males have now captured six of 9 Olympic medals because the occasion made its debut in 2014. Goepper has three of them, including silver to his silver from the 2018 Pyeongchang Video games and bronze from the 2014 Sochi Olympics.
US FACES CANADA AGAIN
One in every of sports activities’ fiercest and longest-running grudge-matches will resume Thursday when the American and Canadian ladies’s hockey groups faceoff on the Beijing Video games with an Olympic gold medal on the road. The sport will mark the sixth day out of seven Olympics the cross-border rivals will play for the title. Canada has received 4 instances. America is the defending champion after an exciting 3-2 shootout victory in 2018 in Pyeongchang. The check for the U.S. is discovering a method to include Canada’s dynamic offense. The Canadians are 6-0 and have outscored opponents by a margin of 54-8. Canada defeated the U.S. 4-2 within the preliminary spherical.
SLOVAKIA STUNS US
America is out of the lads’s hockey event on the Olympics in gorgeous style after blowing a late lead. Slovakia beat the U.S. 3-2 in a shootout to knock the top-seeded Individuals out within the quarterfinals. Canada exited hours after the U.S. with a 2-0 loss to Sweden. It’s the primary Olympic semifinals with out the U.S. and Canada since 2006. The U.S. led for nearly half the sport earlier than the tying purpose when Slovakia pulled its goaltender for an additional attacker to play 6-on-5. Slovakia ahead Juraj Slafkovsky scored his tournament-leading fifth purpose of the event. The Russians and Finland additionally moved on to the semifinals.
OLYMPIC TORCHES WHILE THEY WAIT
IOC President Thomas Bach provided U.S. determine skaters Olympic torches as holdover items whereas they await a decision of the Russian doping case stopping them from receiving their silver medals. Two folks conversant in the occasions informed The Related Press that Bach, within the assembly in Beijing, reiterated to the athletes the IOC stance that no medals ceremonies can be held for occasions involving Russian determine skater Kamila Valieva till her case is resolved. The folks didn’t need their names used as a result of the assembly was confidential. Nathan Chen and the U.S. completed runner-up to Russia within the staff occasion final week, however the end result was shortly thrown into chaos when stories surfaced that Valieva had used a banned remedy.