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Kamila Valieva had three substances sometimes used to help the heart in her sample. Only one is banned.

The teenage Russian figure skater at the center of a doping case at the Beijing Olympics had three substances that are sometimes used to help the heart in the sample she provided to an antidoping laboratory before the Games, according to a document filed in her arbitration hearing on Sunday.

The skater, Kamila Valieva, was cleared to continue competing in the Games by a panel of arbitrators on Monday even though a drug found in her system, trimetazidine, is on the list of drugs banned by global antidoping officials. Valieva, 15, provided the sample in December, but Russian antidoping officials said they only learned of her positive result last week.