Figure skater Gallyamov, deprived of Olympic gold, asked IOC head Bach for an explanation
Russian figure skater Alexander Gallyamov, performing in a pair with Anastasia Mishina, addressed the head of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) Thomas Bach on the Telegram channel.
The athlete published a photo of a memorial plaque for the medalists of the 2022 Olympic Games in Beijing. “Please tell me what the idiomatic expression An Olympic medal is forever means?” – Gallyamov asked Bach for an explanation.
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On January 30, the International Skating Union decided to redistribute the team tournament medals due to the disqualification and cancellation of the results of Kamila Valieva. The Russian team (Mark Kondratyuk, Anastasia Mishina and Alexander Gallyamov, Victoria Sinitsina and Nikita Katsalapov) lost their victory and moved from first to third place, gold went to the USA, silver to Japan.
On January 29, the Court of Arbitration for Sport disqualified Valieva for four years for violating anti-doping rules. The period of suspension is counted from December 25, 2021, all her results for this period are canceled. The fact that traces of the banned drug trimetazidine were found in the figure skater’s sample from December 2021 became known after the end of the team tournament at the Beijing Games.
Source: Lenta

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