Winter Olympics - Live: Valieva allowed to compete as Team USA wins first female-only Monobob medal

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It’s day 10 of the Beijing Winter Olympics and the first-ever medal for monobob is up for grabs alongside events ice dancing, freestyle skiing, and curling.

Monobob is one of the seven new sports that was added to the Games this year to increase women’s participation in bobsleigh events, making it a gender-balanced discipline having two men’s and two women’s events.

All eyes will be set on Kaillie Humphries who would be vying to win her first medal for Team USA along with Elana Meyers Taylor.

Curling has pitted Team GB’s women against Canada.  Eve Muirhead, whose rink won gold at Sochi 2014  while Canadian skip Jennifer Jones took gold, will be looking to make a statement for Britain.

Snowboard big air qualifying will also take place, giving a medal opportunity to GB’s Katie Ormerod. Ormerod has six career World Cup big air podiums to her name.

Russian figure skater Kamila Valieva can continue to compete at the Winter Olympics after the Court of Arbitration for Sport determined that no provisional suspension should be imposed.

The CAS cited “exceptional circumstances” for its decision, after the 15-year-old submitted a positive sample for the trimetazidine on Christmas Day.

They included Valieva’s status as a “protected person” under the World Anti-Doping Code, “serious issues” in the process of notifying Valieva of her result, and the fact a suspension could cause her “irreparable harm”.

Kamila Valieva has been cleared to continue to compete at the Winter Olympics after the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) determined that no provisional suspension should be imposed.

Russian figure skater Kamila Valieva will compete for her second gold medal on Tuesday at the Winter Olympics despite