Beijing Games
Russian Olympic Skater in Doping Case Cleared to Compete
- Global sports court held meeting with Russian, IOC officials
- Kamila Valieva will compete in women’s singles competition
Russian figure skater Kamila Valieva will be allowed to continue competing at the Beijing Winter Olympics despite failing a drug test before the games that revived long-running concerns over doping by her nation’s athletes.
The Court of Arbitration for Sport said Monday that it “declines to impose a provisional suspension on the Russian figure skater,” after a nearly six-hour meeting the previous night. The International Olympic Committee, International Skating Union and World Anti-Doping Agency, which attended the meeting along with the 15-year-old skater and Russian Olympic Committee officials, had called for the reinstatement of an earlier suspension that would force the teenager to withdraw from upcoming events.