Russian figure skater Kamila Valieva cleared to keep competing at Beijing Olympics
The 15-year-old figure skating phenom failed a drug test taken in December. But the results were not reported until after she helped Russia win the Olympic team skating competition last week.
BEIJING — In a decision that sent shockwaves through the Olympic sports movement, 15-year-old figure skating phenom Kamila Valieva will be allowed to skate Tuesday in the women single skating competition in Beijing.
The ruling was handed down Monday in Beijing by a panel of three arbitrators appointed by the Court of Arbitration for Sport.
It came after international uproar over doping by Russia's most high-profile athlete embroiled the first week of the Winter Olympics.
The panel met for nearly six hours on Sunday, hearing testimony from Valieva herself and gathering evidence from other witnesses about a doping sample collected from her in Russia on
