IOC member Pound calls for Canadians to give bronze at 2022 Games due to Valieva’s doping
Dick Pound, a member of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) and the first president of the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA), called for the bronze medals of the team figure skating tournament at the 2022 Olympic Games in Beijing to be given to the Canadian team because of doping found in Russian figure skater Kamila Valieva. USA Today journalist Christine Brennan quotes him on her page X.
Pound said there had been an error in the scoring and it should be corrected as soon as possible. “The longer this goes on, the worse the ISU will look,” he said.
On January 30, the ISU decided to redistribute the Olympic team tournament medals due to the disqualification and cancellation of the results of Russian Kamila Valieva. The Russian team moved from first to third place, gold went to the USA, silver to Japan. If the Russian team had been disqualified, Canada would have won the bronze.
On January 29, Valieva was disqualified for four years for violating anti-doping rules. The period of suspension is counted from the moment the sample is taken – December 25, 2021. The fact that traces of the banned drug trimetazidine were found in it became known after the end of the team tournament at the Beijing Games.
Source: Lenta
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