moment from clean athletes and the public. instead, it appears it will be months before these athletes will know the final outcome of their competition well after the moment and the eyes of the world have passed. valieva is set to compete in tuesday s singles skating short program where she is expected to win the gold, but cnn sports analyst christine brennan says this doping scandal is far from over. reporter: what this means is kind of, i guess, kicking the can down the road. in other words, a bigger, more important case will be coming in front of the court of arbitration for sport no time for it between now and the women s short program on tuesday night here in beijing. but that case will be about the merits of the case. they ll look at the testing sample, they ll look at why the delay, and it will look at everything. and that, anything can happen there. we ve seen gold medals taken away from athletes for all kinds of doping violations. cnn s steven jiang joins me