The top court in sports released the full 41-page report supporting its decision that barring Kamila Valieva, the 15-year-old star Russian skater who faces a potential disqualification for doping, from the Olympics would have risked causing her “irreparable harm.”
The full details of the decision by the emergency three-person panel from the Court of Arbitration for Sport were published a few hours after Valieva’s stunning downfall in the women’s figure skating free skate competition on Thursday. The International Olympic Committee; the International Skating Union, the sport’s governing body; and the World Anti-Doping Agency had filed an appeal with the court seeking her suspension.