BEIJING, CHINA – FEBRUARY 11, 2022: Figure skater Kamila Valieva of Team ROC is seen during a training session at Capital Indoor Stadium at the 2022 Winter Olympic Games. Valery Sharifulin/TASS/Sipa USA
China: Beijing 2022 Olympics: figure skating, training session
BEIJING (AP) — Russian figure skater Kamila Valieva’s right to compete in the women’s event at the Beijing Olympics will be decided at an urgent hearing at the Court of Arbitration for Sport.
The International Testing Agency says it will lead an appeal on behalf of the IOC against a decision by Russia’s anti-doping agency to lift a provisional ban imposed on the 15-year-old Valieva for failing a doping test in December. Valieva is the heavy favorite in her event that begins Tuesday.
She set world record scores this season and landed the first quad jump by a woman at an Olympics.
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