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Kamila Valieva’s Doctor Has Long Worked in the Shadows of Sport

Dr. Filipp Shvetsky was listed as Valieva’s supervising physician at the Beijing Games, where it was revealed she had tested positive for a banned drug before the event. He says he didn’t administer it.

Kamila Valieva of Russia after the women’s free skate at the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics.Credit...Chang W. Lee/The New York Times

More than eight months after the Russian figure skater Kamila Valieva became one of the biggest stories of the Beijing Games for all the wrong reasons, the mystery behind her failed doping test that shrouded the Olympics remains unresolved.