Bring some localised damage and disruption, gusts up to 75mph for a time. We start off with some sunshine across scotland and much of england, you will be wondering what the pot is about, but further west we have got the Heavy Rain Piling in. The winds really start to pick up in the afternoon with those damaging, disruptive gusts and there will be large, battering waves pummelling the coastline, of around four or five metres pummelling the coastline, of around four orfive metres high. Four or five metres high. Temperatures four orfive metres high. Temperatures about 15 22, breezy with just the occasional shower across east anglia and South East England. Going through wednesday night, the heavy rain and the strong winds for scotland and northern england, the last dregs of that system pulling out of the way. What follows on thursday, Another Band Of Rain Coming off the atlantic, this one has the remains of storm ophelia, which was affecting the us over recent days. It will be bringing so
There could be yet another delay in the doping case of Russian figure skater Kamila Valieva, with a ruling now potentially coming more than two years since her positive test rocked the Beijing Winter Olympics. The International Skating Union said in a statement Thursday that the Court of Arbitration for Sport “expects to publish its decision” by Feb. 12. Valieva, who was 15 at the time, tested positive for a banned heart medication in a sample she gave in December 2021, but the result from a lab in Sweden only came back after she had helped the Russian team win gold in the figure skating team event.
in a case that s been described as a watershed moment, an american could face up to ten years in prison after pleading guilty to supplying performance enhancing drugs to olympic athletes. eric lira is the first defendant to be charged under a new us law introduced following russia s state backed olympic doping scandals. our sports news correspondent alex capstick has been looking into the story for us, i began by asking him how this doping case came to light. the act is named after the insider who uncovered, the whistle blower, and the huge doping scandal in russia the stop he had to uncover that and eat now allows the fbi to go after people who help the cheats. the athletes and their entourages. in this case, eric lira is accused of assisting and handed band performance enhancing drugs to athletes like blessing okagbare, the
with the eyes of the world on her, 15 year old kamila valieva cast a disconsolate figure on the ice as she prepared for an event she might not be able to compete in. and then shielded herself as she walked past the press alone following confirmation she tested positive for a banned drug. such cases are not helpful to the games, these cases need to be prosecuted properly and taken care of properly and due process needs to be gone through. otherwise i think the confidence of people will be even less. ordinarily, someone as young as valieva would not have been named in a doping case but the international testing agency explained there was a need for official information, given the heightened level of public interest in this matter and the immense speculation that s been swirling around beijing. this has now engulfed the games. but how did we get here? on christmas day, valieva was drugs tested during the russian figure skating championships in st petersburg. on monday here in beijing she
gee we are following a major development out of if beijing olympics. russian figure skater kamila valiyeva, who tested positive for a banned substance back in december, will be allowed to continue competing in the games. an arbitration decision that will have a domino effect on every other potential medalist. russia argued that she had more recently tested negative, twice, so should be allowed to compete. but that doping case is still under appeal. in an extraordinary ruling, the ioc said until it s settled no one will be awarded medals in events where she qualifies. valiyeva s performance led russia to the gold in team competition and she is the favorite in the women s singles event which begins tomorrow.