As the figure skating world awaits a verdict on the doping scandal involving Russia’s Kamila Valieva, the International Olympic Committee is trying to defuse the high tensions surrounding the situation. 

Valieva, the 15-year-old who already won a gold medal in the team event and is the favorite for the women’s individual competition that is set to begin Tuesday, has been the center of attention after it was revealed she had tested positive for a banned substance. 

The Court of Arbitration for Sport will hold a hearing Sunday and they are expected to have a decision on Valieva’s fate by Monday. As her eligibility for the women’s event and the handing out of gold medals for the team event hang in the balance, the IOC is preaching patience and calm. 

“Everybody needs to take a chill pill,” IOC spokesman Mark Adams told reporters Saturday, per Yahoo Sports. 

The reporters who first broke the story about Valieva’s positive test, Duncan Mackay and Michael Pavitt of the website Inside the Games, have received death threats and online abuse, according to The Guardian. Someone told Mackay via Twitter, “You will be positive when you discover some new substances in your tea,” The Guardian reported. 

But their reporting was backed up on Friday, when the International Testing Agency confirmed that Valieva had tested positive for trimetazidine from a sample taken at the Russian national championships in December, but not run until this past Tuesday. 

Russia’s anti-doping agency provisionally banned Valieva on Tuesday — a day after she and the Russian Olympic Committee won the team figure skating event — before lifting the ban a day later following an appeal. Valieva was the first in women’s competition to land a quadruple jump in Olympic history and did so twice on her way to a potential gold. Should her team be striped of the medal, the gold would go to the American contingent. 

In the meantime, Valieva has continued to practice for the women’s event, but has done so under heavy attention. Her training session on Saturday was attended by about 50 print reporters and 20-plus photographers, USA Today reported. 

Another British journalist who asked Valieva on Friday whether she was a “doper” (she did not answer the question) was subsequently surrounded by members of the Russian media who claimed his questions were inappropriate, according to The Guardian. 

“Understandably, there are all sorts of arguments on all sides but it is not acceptable for that to turn into threats of violence if it indeed did,” Adams told reporters. “Everybody should remain calm. It is important to respect the Olympic values of respect to each other. Everyone is here to report a story.”