Russian ice skater 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.
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".
