IOC to award medals to US, Japan for 2022 Olympic figure skating team event on August 7
The International Olympic Committee (IOC) has announced the date for awarding gold and silver medals to figure skaters from the US and Japanese teams in the team competitions of the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing. RIA Novosti quotes the organization’s communications director Mark Adams as saying.
The medal ceremony for the Beijing team tournament will take place on August 7. It will be held at the Parc des Champions in Paris.
On July 25, it became known that the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) rejected the appeals filed by the Russian side against stripping the skaters of their gold medals. According to the court, the ISU did the right thing by taking first place away from the Russian team.
On January 29, CAS disqualified Russian figure skater Kamila Valieva for four years for violating anti-doping rules. Traces of the banned drug trimetazidine were found in the skater’s sample from December 2021. All of the athlete’s results from that date were annulled. In particular, Valieva, along with her teammates on the Russian national team, were stripped of the gold for winning the team tournament at the 2022 Olympic Games.
Source: Lenta
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