Christine Brennan :
Right.
Well, there's two options, really. Kamila Valieva, you mentioned, 15 years old, she's a protected person, otherwise known as a minor. So she might get a slap on the wrist and leniency just because of that. But if she is found innocent, then the order of the medals would stay the same, Russia — presumably, Russia, U.S. and Japan.
But if she is found guilty, then one would assume — and, again, who knows what this story — I have never seen anything quite like this. But you would presume then that the U.S. would move up, Russia would be disqualified, because of using this athlete who would then deemed to be using a performance-enhancing drug and doping.
U.S. would move up to the gold, Japan would move up to the silver, and then Canada, which finished in fourth place, would move up to the bronze. You asked when this could happen? Well, obviously, if the event, if the hearing had stopped today, they would take between one and three months to then render the verdict.
Now that the hearing is being postponed for six weeks — there's a lot of numbers and a lot of Alphabet soup with all these organizations — but the Court of Arbitration for Sport now will come back on November 9 and look at this new documentation that they wanted to see.
So, then, from that point, the clock starts again, and it would be between one and three months. So now we're pushing it into 2024. And, basically, a decision probably, Amna, that will not be made until the two-year anniversary of those Olympic Games, February of 2022.
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