KAMILA VALIEVA

The World Anti-Doping Agency says it has appealed Russian figure skater Kamila Valieva’s doping case to the Court of Arbitration for Sport and is seeking a four-year ban.

Skaters from Russia won the team event with the U.S. second and Japan third. But then it came to light that Russian Kamila Valieva had given a positive drug test weeks before the Olympics.

U.S. Figure Skating has had enough with the delays over the awarding of team medals from the Beijing Olympics.

The Russian Anti-Doping Agency found figure skater Kamila Valieva did violate anti-doping rules but bore "no fault or negligence” for the act, the World Anti-Doping Agency said.

The World Anti-Doping Agency says a Russian tribunal has found figure skater Kamila Valieva bore “no fault or negligence” in a doping case that rocked last year’s Winter Olympics.

Kamila Valieva sported long, black pigtail braids and a black dress nearly identical to the one Jenna Ortega wore in "Wednesday."

Russian figure skater Kamila Valieva is facing a four-year ban and could possibly lose her Olympic gold medal after testing positive for a banned substance during the Beijing Games.

Eight months after finishing behind the Russians at the Winter Olympics, the U.S. team has yet to receive its medals.

"This is a very important decision," ISU president Jan Dijkema said. "I would say a very historic decision."

The move comes months after Russia's Kamila Valieva, then 15, was caught in a storm of controversy at the Beijing Winter Olympics.

No 15-year-old figure skaters will be allowed to compete at the 2026 Olympics following the controversy surrounding Russian national champion Kamila Valieva at this year’s Beijing Games.

Strongmen and sports are a match made in hell, but that never bothered the International Olympic Committee before.

More and more sports are following the appeal of the International Olympic Committee and banning Russian athletes from competing in the wake of the country’s invasion of Ukraine.

Russian athletes have been excluded from yet another sport that is extremely popular at home following the country’s invasion of Ukraine. Russia was banned from competing in international ice skating events on Tuesday, a day after being kicked out of soccer competitions and hockey — Vladimir Putin’s favorite sport. The decisions follow the International Olympic Committee’s request to keep Russian athletes out of sporting events around the world.

The invasion of Ukraine could further undermine Russia's status as an elite sports dynasty, which already has been weakened by deception and doping scandals but often punished only by a tepid pushback from international sports bodies.

The Olympics have said goodbye to Asia after a star-crossed run, and it’s unclear when they’ll be back after the continent hosted four of the last eight Games.

15-year-old Valieva attended a concert by rising Russian pop star Vanya Dmitrienko Monday night, posing for a smiling picture with the singer.

Spanish figure skater Laura Barquero has become the fourth athlete to fail a doping test at the Beijing Olympics after testing positive for the banned steroid clostebol, the International Testing Agency said on Tuesday. Barquero and her partner Marco Zandron finished 11th in the pairs competition, which finished on Saturday. As well as Barquero's case, there were positive tests in Beijing for Iranian Alpine skier Hossein Saveh Shemshaki and two Ukrainians, cross-country skier Valentyna Kaminska and bobsledder Lidiia Hunko.

Controversial coach Eteri Tutberidze made the comments in an Instagram post on Monday where she also described the 15-year-old Olympian as "our star."

NPR's team in Beijing put together moments and storylines that stuck out — including those that showed immense inner strength, athleticism and grace.

A pile of figure-skating rubble created by Russian misbehavior.

Some figure skaters are hoping an Olympic doping scandal that is fueling a push to raise the minimum age of competitors will also focus attention on what they see as the sport’s most pressing issue: body image, body shaming and disordered eating.

The Olympic figure skating program at the Beijing Games probably won't be remembered for the soaring performances of American gold medalist Nathan Chen, French ice dancers Gabriella Papadakis and Guillaume Cizeron or the Chinese pairs team of Sui Wenjing and Han Cong.

Sui Wenjing and Han Cong captured the Olympic gold medal that eluded them by a razor-thin margin four years ago.

Sui Wenjing and Han Cong exploded from their seats in the kiss-and-cry area, and a small and carefully chosen crowd of Chinese fans in the stands did the same, the moment their scores were read in the pairs event at the Beijing Olympics. Four years after a crushing disappointment at the Pyeongchang Games, when they lost the gold medal by the thinnest of margins, Sui and Han had flipped the script: They were the ones walking away as champions by a razor-thin margin. Sui and Han scored a world-record 239.88 points with a flawless free skate set to a rendition of “Bridge Over Troubled Water,” beating Russian rivals Evgenia Tarasova and Vladimir Morozov by just 63 hundredths of a point.

Medals are currently being withheld in events where Kamila Valieva placed, after a positive doping test for the 15-year-old skater was disclosed.

The team is requesting the Court of Arbitration for Sport rule so its skaters can receive their medals while they await the results of a wider investigation into the Kamila Valieva doping scandal

Journalists who spent weeks of reporting on the Beijing Olympics while hermetically sealed inside the “closed-loop” system will leave with an incomplete picture of what reporting in China entails.

Women are approaching gender parity at the Winter Games, They've also dominated news coverage, because of powerhouse stars like Eileen Gu and because of tragic cases like Kamila Valieva.

Arbitrators have rejected a last-ditch request by American figure skaters to have their silver medals awarded before the end of the Olympics.

Arbitrators have rejected a last-ditch request by American figure skaters to have their silver medals awarded before the end of the Olympics. The Court of Arbitration for Sport said early Sunday in Beijing that it dismissed the appeal by the nine skaters, who finished second in the team event that was marred by a doping positive by 15-year-old Russian Kamila Valieva. In an earlier decision, CAS had allowed Valieva to compete in the women's event after her doping positive went public following the Russians' victory in the team event.

Slovakia has won its first Olympic hockey medal in the nation’s history.

"That was an incredibly troubling outcome," doping expert April Henning says of Russian skating star Kamila Valieva's collapse. She says Valieva "was failed at all levels" by the adults around her.

After the 15-year-old appeared to crumble under pressure in her final performance, her coach asked, "Why did you let it go?"

A worldwide wave of sympathy has flowed to Kamila Valieva for the ordeal she endured at the Beijing Olympics.

Eileen Gu turned the Beijing Olympics into her own personal playground.

La campeona olímpica de patinaje artístico en Beijing dice que se siente vacía; la subcampeona afirma que no volvería a patinar y la favorita se va llorando sin decir una palabra.

IOC president Thomas Bach insists the ‘chilling’ atmosphere and treatment that followed the 15-year-old’s error-strewn performance needs investigating

International Olympic Committee President Thomas Bach resisted implementing any immediate changes despite speaking of concerns for minor athletes like Valieva.

Sui Wenjing and Han Chan of China shattered their own world record for a short program at the Beijing Games on Friday night, giving them the narrowest of leads over Russian rivals Evgenia Tarasova and Vladimir Morozov heading into the free skate to decide the Olympic champion.

International Olympic Committee president Thomas Bach has criticized Russian figure skater Kamila Valieva's entourage for their “tremendous coldness” toward the 15-year-old skater after her mistake-filled free skate at the Beijing Olympics. Bach says it was “chilling” to see on television. Valieva, who has been at the center of a controversy over a positive doping test, finished fourth overall despite placing first in the women's short program earlier in the week.

The 15-year-old's performance was highly contested after she had tested positive for a heart medication considered a performance enhancing drug.

Russia’s trio of teenage figure skating stars each enter an uncertain future after what may be the most dramatic night in their sport's history.

The Russian skater, who was expected to win gold, fell twice during her free skate performance and spiraled out of contention for an Olympic medal.

Canadian figure skater Madeline Schizas could end up a medalist at the Beijing Games, though she isn’t holding her breath for the results of the Russian doping scandal that has cast a shadow over figure skating at the Winter Olympics.

The IOC had said it wouldn't hold a medal ceremony if Valieva placed in the top three.

Two skaters from the Russian Olympic Committee took the top two spots at the women's program at the Beijing Olympics. Kamila Valieva, who has been at the center of a scandal, took fourth place.

Valieva's fourth-place finish allows for a medal ceremony to take place.

The scandal involving 15-year-old figure skater Kamila Valieva is drawing new calls to establish age restrictions on Olympic figure skaters.

North Korea holds a mass dance event at Pyongyang's Kim Il Sung Square as part of celebrations to mark the 80th birthday of leader Kim Jong Un's late father.

Anna Shcherbakova won a stunning gold medal in women’s figure skating at the Beijing Games while Russian teammate Kamila Valieva tumbled all the way out of the medals after a mistake-filled end to her controversial Olympics.

A Russian woman was standing atop the figure skating podium at the Beijing Games on Thursday night. Anna Shcherbakova, the overlooked world champion, delivered a clean performance in her free skate at historic Capital Indoor Stadium to win a stunning gold medal, while teammate Kamila Valieva — at the center of the latest Russian doping controversy — tumbled out of the medals altogether with a mistake-filled end to her Olympic dream. Shcherbakova landed both of her quads to finish with 255.95 points, edging out another teammate, Alexandra Trusova, who landed five somewhat shaky quads of her own to finish four points back in second place.

Russian figure skater Kamila Valieva ends in fourth place in the women’s individual figure skating event, which she competed in despite failing a pre-Olympics doping test.

Russia’s “Quad Squad” of figure skaters is looking for an Olympics podium sweep by landing the thrilling quadruple jumps that remain rare in the women’s competition.

The women’s figure skating event ends Thursday — the competition portion, at least.

Daniil Aldoshkin's gesture added friction to the Beijing Winter Olympics.

IOC president Thomas Bach has offered U.S. figure skaters Olympic torches as holdover gifts while they await a resolution of the Russian doping case preventing them from receiving their silver medals.

A triple jump used to be the gold standard in figure skating. Now it's the quad. For the first time at an Olympics, a woman - Russian figure skater Kamila Valieva - landed a quad in competition.

Figure skating officials seeking the change argue it would protect child athletes' welfare and reduce injury risks from intense training.

Russian figure skater Kamila Valieva was allowed to skate at the Olympics in the short program partly because her age gives her extra rights as a “protected person” in a doping case.

Russian figure skater Kamila Valieva listed two legal substances used to improve heart function on an anti-doping control form she filled out before her drug case at the Olympics erupted.

“It reminds me of kids I knew who said they got venereal disease from the toilet seat,” says Dr. Steven Nissen, a cardiologist at the Cleveland Clinic

The Associated Press has learned IOC president Thomas Bach offered U.S. figure skaters Olympic torches as holdover gifts while they await a resolution of the Russian doping case that is preventing them from receiving their silver medals.

The 15-year-old athlete tested positive in December for trimetazidine, a drug typically prescribed to much older patients suffering from angina and other heart-related conditions.

Only one of the drugs found in Valieva's sample in December — trimetazidine, which can increase endurance — is banned for use by Olympic athletes.

The Russian Olympic Committee declined to bring Valieva to the news conference, and she said she would not comment on the doping scandal.

"The only difference I see is I'm a black young lady," U.S. sprinter Sha'Carri Richardson said, after the Russian figure skater is allowed to compete at the Olympics despite a failed drug test.

The best 25 skaters after Tuesday's program will advance to the next segment if Kamila Valieva places. Traditionally the qualification rule of the short program only means the best 24 move on.

Russian teenager Kamila Valieva was on the ice for a final run-through of her short program hours before one of the most-anticipated events of the Beijing Olympics.

The doping scandal around Russian figure skater Kamila Valieva has been a Games-changer at the Beijing Olympics.

Russian figure skater Kamila Valieva, the heavily favored 15-year-old dynamo at the center of the latest Olympic doping scandal, overcame an early mistake to lead after the women’s short program at the Beijing Games on Tuesday night.

Freestyler skier Alex Hall has led a 1-2 American finish in the men’s Olympic slopestyle competition in Beijing.

Su Yiming gave host China its second gold medal at Big Air Shougang, matching Eileen Gu with a stunning show in front of fans at the repurposed steel mill and winning the country’s first top prize in Olympic snowboarding. The 17-year-old child actor-turned-rider followed up his unexpected silver in slopestyle — he would’ve taken gold if not for a judging blunder — by joining Gu in cementing his celebrity status with a big air gold. Gu won the freestyle skiing best-trick contest last week on her final jump, and the celebration briefly broke Chinese social media website Weibo.

A court’s decision to allow Russian skater who failed a drug test to continue competing isn’t sitting well with Olympians. And could damage the Olympic movement

The saga of Russian figure skater Kamila Valieva moves on to the short program — which she can participate in after a ruling by the Court of Arbitration for Sport.

Both athletes failed drug tests. One is Black, one is white. Richardson is now questioning whether that's the difference.

Kamila Valieva, a15-year-old ROC figure skater, was told she could still compete in the singles event after testing positive for a banned drug.

Richardson was not allowed to compete in the Summer 2020 Games after a failed drug test, but Valieva can compete after failing a doping test.

Kamila Valieva, a 15-year-old Russian figure skater, tested positive for the banned drug Trimetazidine in December.

The Valieva case means Russian doping has been a major theme for a six straight Olympic Games.

Russian teenage figure skating sensation Kamila Valieva is cleared by the Court of Arbitration for Sport to continue competing in the Beijing Olympics despite failing a doping test. CAS Director General Matthieu Reeb says that Valieva is considered a "protected person under the World Anti-Doping Code" and that "the panel considered that preventing the athlete to compete at the Olympic Games would cause her irreparable harm." The International Olympic Committee has announced that there will be no medal ceremony for the women's singles figure skating at the Beijing Olympics if Kamila Valieva finishes in the top three.

After Russian figure skater Kamila Valieva’s fate is determined at the Olympics, legal trouble for her coach and others in her orbit could emerge in the United States.

Legal troubles for the coach and others in Russian figure skater Kamila Valieva's orbit could emerge in the United States even after her doping case from the Beijing Games has been resolved. “Doctors and coaches who give performance-enhancing drugs to athletes are directly liable" under the new law, said one of its authors, attorney Jim Walden.

U.S. Olympic officials say they're disappointed; Court in part blamed 15-year-old Kamila Velieva's handlers for failed test

U.S. Olympic officials say they're disappointed. Court in part blamed 15-year-old Kamila Valieva's handlers for a failed drug test before the Games.

The 15-year-old figure skating phenom failed a drug test taken in December. But the results were not reported until after she helped Russia win the Olympic team skating competition last week.

Russian teenager Kamila Valieva has been cleared to compete in the women’s figure skating competition at the Winter Olympics despite failing a pre-Games drug test.

Austria has won Olympic gold in the ski jumping team event at the Beijing Games.

Fifteen-year-old Russian figure skater Kamila Valieva still waits to hear whether she can compete for the gold medal at the Beijing Olympics after her marathon doping hearing concluded.

The Winter Olympics finally look like the Winter Olympics.

Russian figure skater Kamila Valieva testified by video at the appeal hearing that will decide if she can still compete at the Beijing OIympics.

The United States has clinched the top seed in the Olympic men’s hockey tournament.

Three judges from the Court of Arbitration for Sport will sit on the panel to hear the doping case against Russian figure skater Kamila Valieva on Sunday at the Beijing Olympics.

The biggest questions at the Beijing Olympics hardly centered on who would win the six gold medals up for grabs.

The Court of Arbitration for Sport says Russian figure skater Kamila Valieva's doping hearing will be held Sunday night with a ruling by Monday afternoon.

Gabriella Papadakis and Guillaume Cizeron broke their own world record in the rhythm dance, scoring 90.83 points to give the four-time world champions from France the lead heading into Monday’s free dance at the Beijing Games.

Shaun White’s brilliant and transcendent Olympic career is over.

One of the most anticipated events at the Beijing Olympics is the imminent legal hearing in Russian figure skater Kamila Valieva’s doping case.

Be it sports, politics, hacking or war, the recent history of Russia’s relationship with the world can be summed up in one phrase: They get away with it.

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.