“:...banned heart drug Trimetazidine in a urine sample collected by Russian authorities on Dec. 25. ...”
I don’t understand how a Christmas Day urine sample can affect a performance the second week of February. If it were a horse race the winner would be sampled after the race.
I think the question is whether she should have been allowed to compete at all. If she failed a drug test at the Russian Olympic trials then she may have been subject to an automatic suspension.
The sample was taken on December 25 but it took awhile for the lab to test it. There were people out from the lab because of Covid. I don’t blame the skater. She’s only fifteen and may not have known what she was taking. She needs to be disqualified though. Her competing isn’t fair to the other skaters.