it is only addressing a very technical procedural issue. it does not address whether or not valieva has committed a doping offense, and also it's not addressing the issue of what's going to happen to the russian's gold medal from the team event last monday one day before this positive test result returned. now, as you mentioned, age is certainly a key factor here with the arbitrators mentioning her being a minor. they seem to be trying to give her more benefit of the doubt, showing her more sympathy. they also appear to be siding with the russians in some of their arguments, including how she has been testing negative since she arrived here in beijing as well as, of course, pointing to the length of time that sweden took to return this positive test result. now, all of this, of course, is resulting in a very unsatisfying situation for many parties, including the i.o.c., and they actually said they wanted to have all the issues settled once and for all. but they simply couldn't bring all the parties on board to make that happen. so now there are separate, more