The IOC has scrapped the medal ceremony for the women's individual figure skating final after Russia's Kamila Valieva was cleared to compete.
Kamila Valieva has been cleared to compete again at the Winter Olympics but the International Olympic Committee say there will be no medal ceremony if she finishes on the podium.
Sport’s highest court adjudged that ‘exceptional circumstances’ – namely that Valieva is under 16 years old – meant she is a protected person, while they also cited issues around the timing of the test result.supports HTML5 video The ruling criticised the length of time it took for the positive test to be revealed – with the teenager testing positive for angina-prevention drug trimetazidine on December 25 last year – and said ‘such late notification was not her fault’.
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