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Doping hearing to decide Russian skater’s Olympic fate

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By GRAHAM DUNBAR and JAMES ELLINGWORTH
AP Sports Writers

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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