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that makes it ironic to a lot of people. their basis is she s been passing doping tests before and after last christmas. they insist that that test should not apply for the games period because she s been testing negative since she arrived here in beijing. obviously, as you mentioned, the ioc disagrees. that s why the ioc who s in charge during the olympics is leading an appeal for sport in switzerland. in its own statement they say it hopes to see a quick decision made by the court before next tuesday. that s when valiyeva is selected to compete. if no decision is reached we can see her continue and that could
really drawing any conclusion on whether or not she has committed a doping offense. and also as you have heard, also not ruling out what will happen to the russian gold medal from the team event last monday. one day before her positive test result returned. it seems to me that the panel has been really siding with the russian authorities. a lot of the arguments including for example valiyeva has been passing her doping tests after the december 25 date. that was when the positive sample was collected. and she has been testing negative since she arrived here in beijing. for the winter games. and also they said of course the circumstances surrounding that positive test result that is how unusually long it took the lab in sweden to return the result is also a consideration. that is obviously not giving the athlete and organizers and other people involved a lot of time to prepare the legal defense. all the factors take into consideration the panel says for now they decide to let her
settled once and for all, but they simply couldn t get everybody on board for that to happen. so they also said if valiyeva is allowed to compete on tuesday and wins, then conceivably, she could receive that medal. but if that separate process finds her guilty of doping later, then that medal could be revoked. so it s a rather complicated picture. but of course the ruxs have insisted they have lifted that temporary ban on valiyeva because she has been passing her doping tests before and after december 25th. that s when the sample was collected. she has been testing negative since she arrived here in beijing. that s why the russians think the positive test results should not apply for the games period. but one thing is clear. even with that decision announced in less than an hour from now, there is still going to be a lot of things left hanging. john? this has obviously taken some of the shine at least off her achievements so far. she was sensational in the figure skating. she landed
compete at the olympics without their flag and without their national anthem but that wasn t punishment enough because they continued to produce positive doping tests. and it impacts everyone. it s really robbed some of valiyeva s competitors from experiencing true olympic moments. we have some pictures of you because you ve been there. you know what it s like to be on that medal podium. the usa, team usa still doesn t know if they ll remain silver or if they ll end up with gold in the team event. what s your message to them? yeah, the team event that happened, it was the first figure stating event that happened at the beijing olympics. the final result, right now, russia has won gold. u.s. has won the silver. japan has won the bronze. but because of valiyeva s positive doping test they said the international olympic committee and organizing committee of the beijing olympics said there would be no medal ceremonies. basically robbing the skaters from the usa, the skaters from japan