JUST IN: Russian skater Kamila Valieva cleared to skate at Winter Olympics
CAS found in its ruling that banning Valieva would cause her "irreparable harm."
"The athlete should benefit from the following exceptional circumstances, she is under 16 and a protected person under the World Anti-Doping Agency code," CAS' Matthieu Reeb said, perValieva failed a drugs test during last December's Russian national championship. She successfully appealed her initial suspension to the Russian Anti-Doping Agency, but the International Olympic Committee and otherValieva was in the Russian Olympic Committee group that beat the U.S.
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