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Good to have you with us. a russian olympian lives to skate another day. 15 year-old figure skater kamila valiyeva will be allowed to continue at the beijing winter games. despite testing positive for a banned heart drug in december. last hour the court of arbitration for sport declined to suspend the teen skater. since she had limited time to mount a defense in the case. and special circumstances. since she's a minor. >> first the under 16 and protected person under the world antidoping code. the antidoping rules and world antidoping code are silent with respect to provision suspension impose...

With that decision, one question answered. many other things left hanging. with many people left quite upset. >> indeed. and how much concern does the decision like this raise and does it taint the games when dealing with doping cases particularly in relation to russian athletes given the history? >> yeah, we're far from the end of this. these games will be forever tainted. from that point of view. it's what people are all talking about. so many questions that remain unanswered. and whatever the final out come regarding the medal there's so much more to come on that. a doping scandal that will...

Mark on the beijing winter games. listen. >> i would have said she shouldn't be competing here. total sympathy to the 15 yeerl. it'sth adults in her life who did this. the adults should be looked at and they will. the coach and others. team around her. she's not making these decisions the adults are. so for me i think it's a terrible black mark or not olympic games. a woman -- she's 15 and we're sympathetic a woman with a positive drug test two months ago will be competing in the women's competition and likely winning the competition. what a disaster pr nightmare of a headline that is. >> cnn ...