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Russian figure skater Kamila Valieva can compete in the Olympic women’s event from Tuesday after the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) upheld the lifting of a provisional suspension in connection with a positive doping test. The urgent CAS decision permits the 15-year-old to enter the singles event at the Beijing Games after appeals from the International Olympic Committee (IOC), the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) and the governing skating body (ISU) were dismissed. Valieva’s “exceptional circumstances” were key to the decision, said the CAS three-man panel which heard what they acknowledg…