there are reports it s because of a positive drug test. let s get more on this. ivan watson is following this from hong kong. ivan, what more do we know about a positive drug snes critically, what s the iov saying here? the ioc is not saying very much. we have no real official explanation for why the medal ceremony for the gold-winning russian figure skating team has been postponed since tuesday. the ioc spokesman says little more than there s an active legal matter. this is what he says when journalists ask bhim it. i m sorry to disappoint you, but even if i comment on who is handling this, i can talk abstractly about responsibilities. even if i went on who is handling this matter, it tells you what type of matter it might be. i m not going to. there s a legal issue going on. i can t say anything more than that. the same thing goes for the
kamila valieva tested positive for a banned substance before the games started. the kremlin says it fully supports the teenager. here is the latest. after days of intense media speculation, the international testing agency has now confirmed what we and many other media outlets understood to be the case, which is that the 15 year old prodigy from russia, kamila valieva tested positive for a banned substance. in a lengthy statement, they revealed that kamila valieva had been drugs tested on christmas day when she was competing at the russian figure skating championships. now, that result hadn t come out. so she was able to compete here in beijing where on monday, she made olympic history, landing two quadruplejumps to help the russian olympic committee win figure skating team gold. now, on tuesday, those medals were meant to be handed out, but they weren t and that is because, on that same day, the swedish
get away with it at this point. we have seen and heard some stories of abuse coming from her coaches, and her support team around her. and it is important to note that every sporting federation, they travel with sports medicine doctors to their competition. the doctor that the russian figure skating team travels with is an anesthesiologist. nothing to do with sports medicine. this doctor has been involved in doping scandals with the russian rowing team before joining the russian figure skating team. so this is nothing new for this team surrounding this young skater, which has put her in a really terrible position. and it is really unfair when you think about a child that may not have known what was going into their body, but a field of play is a field of play. it has to be fair for everybody and today it will not be. as you point out, the russians have been accused of what is a cheating industry sur
anti-doepg agency an oxymoron, but let me tell you what they told us today. the three drugs used together are used in order to enhance performance. does this erase any doubt as to the already dubious claims that perhaps valiyeva took her grandfather s medication by accident. does it erase that thi theory? absolutely. we shouldn t believe russia on anything, only because they got caught in 2014, and they keep getting a hall pass to keep coming back to the olympics when they should be completely kicked out. so the punishment doesn t fit the crime, it s too lenient, they keep coming back, and now we have the big one. now we have this explosion that has just taken over, swallowed up the olympics, and every athlete is dealing with it. here s the u.s. team as you referred to, the figure skating team having a two-hour conversation with the president of the ioc. when would that happen? it s happening because this is such a crisis.
you know, the lifetime achievement award that is russian doping. and here we are, again. um, as i am reporting, the there was a positive-drug test among one positive-drug test among the six members of the russian olympic figure skating team that won the gold medal a couple of days ago and that team competition dominated the competition. so now, everything has been thrown into disarray and chaos. the question, of course, is if, in fact, the russians would be disqualified for this positive drug test by one member of their team, the u.s. was second, japan was third, canada was fourlgt. logical thought would be russians would be disqualified. the u.s. would move up to gold-medal position, which would be, by itself, a big story. then, as you know, john, you have covered olympic games. we worked together on the games. the next step is the rest of the competition. the men s, the women s, the pairs, the dance. so all those skaters on the russian team will continue to compete in their own ind