As far as the Finnish skier is concerned:
1) This is the 2nd time this has happened to him. Apparently precautions are outlawed by the olympics, or are not worth taking.
2) Apparently he (or his part) recovered, with some pain during the recovery process. Speculation about that process provides endless entertainment.
Larry
DevilHorse
According to a WSJ story, even if no satisfactory explanation is given as to how the prohibited substance entered skater Kamila Valieva’s system, sports lawyers see a variety of ways that the Court of Arbitration for Sport could still uphold the team event outcome, allowing Russia to keep the team gold medals.
In other words, since Valieva tested negative for drugs at the Olympics the team competition in question wasn’t directly affected by the previous violation, apparently qualifying for an exception to the general rule.One possible issue is that the International Skating Union’s own rules appear to provide for this kind of scenario: a team’s results will not be disqualified if a member violates anti-doping rules, as long as the competition in question wasn’t directly affected by the violation and the other team members can establish that the violation wasn’t their fault.
“I don’t think there’s any chance that the team will lose their medals, and I think the only question is whether she does,” said Bill Bock, a sports lawyer who was an early proponent of the theory that paved the way for Valieva to skate in the women’s individual competition at the Games. “The team can keep her results.”
“I do think it’s most likely that she will keep her medal” as well, Bock said, adding that he thought that such a decision would rest on what sanction, if any, she ultimately receives for the doping violation. A warning, or a very short suspension would make it easy to let her get a team medal of her own, he thought.