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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 tim...

Falling in line sometimes means doping. joining us now, in beijing, cnn sports analyst, christine brennan. and, christine, so many new developments here. what is the latest on the controversy? and any sense of when it could be resolved? >> john, i will go with the last question, first. it has to be resolved by 6:00 p.m., beijing time, tuesday. that's when the women's short program begins. and camila valieva is supposed to be in it so i cannot imagine the court of arbitration for sport would go any later than that, although who knows with this drama? to me, the big news over the last 24 hours h...

Some of the entitlement programs. on retirement, saying, we're not going to give you as generous retirement benefits, whi is par austeity that has helped balance the books. >> the other thing that of oil. in the russian budget, the price of oil, in order to get a balanced budget, is under $50 a barrel. now, it is roughly twice that. it's given putin an enormous cushion in order to go into a crisis. indeed, the crisis he helped generate raised the price of oil. russian figure skating star kamila valiyeva is on track for an individual gold medal after her winning performance in the women's sho...

The fight against doping in sports. so what message does this latest decision send? >> wolf, it is a terrible message. it said go ahead and cheat, give drugs to your 15-year-old young skater, the star of the olympics potentially, one of the great skaters of a generation, go ahead, work it out so she could sneak into the olympic games, technicalities, let her win a gold medal and there you go. and who cares about anyone else. who cares that you're ruining the olympic experience for all of these athletes, think of all of the women who roo going to be skating in the women's short program in a few...

The americans meanwhile did not score once in that shoot skrout. lindsey vonn finished in third in the downhill winning bronze while becoming the oldest at 33 years old. on her olympic future, vonn said i wish i could keep going adding that my body probably can't take another four years. meanwhile a pair of russian skater skaters stole the women's short program setting the world records just minutes apart. scoring 82.92 and the latter scoring 81.61. either way, the russian athletes are poised to become the first russian skaters to win a gold medal in the 2018 winter olympics. and with that, no...