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Bach said Friday it was "chilling" to see how Kamila Valieva's coach treated the Russian teenager after a doping scandal engulfing the skater culminated in an error-strewn performance at the Beijing Olympics. The International Olympic Committee president said he was "very disturbed" to see the 15-year-old fall several times and sob in the women's figure skating final on Thursday.
From figure skating trailblazer to lightning rod for doping criticism at the Olympics, Russian Kamila Valieva has endured a mental and physical test that few 15-year-old girls will ever endure.
Kamila Valieva has been cleared to continue to compete at the Winter Olympics despite testing positive for the banned heart medication trimetazidine.
Team USA chief executive Sarah Hirshland has hit out at the decision to allow Kamila Valieva to compete at the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympic Games. CAS said in a statement it had been asked to determine the «narrow issue” of whether the provisional suspension should have been imposed, confirming that it had not ruled on the merits of the wider case. Thus its panel „determined that permitting the provisional suspension to remain lifted was appropriate“.
The Court of Arbitration for Sport has cleared Kamila Valieva to compete at the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympic Games, stating that its panel «determined that permitting the provisional suspension to remain lifted was appropriate». Valieva is free to take part in the women's individual figure skating event on Tuesday, although any medal she potentially wins could be overturned.
Kamila Valieva will discover her Winter Olympic fate later on Monday after the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) concluded its hearing into her case. The Russian, 15, is embroiled in a major controversy after testing positive for trimetazidine, a banned heart agent typically used to treat angina.
Three years after Alysa Liu was a national champion at the age 13, the American figure skater is making her Olympic debut.
BEIJING : Russian figure skater Kamila Valieva, who won gold in the team event at the Beijing Olympics last Monday, failed a drug test for a banned substance before the Games.