IOC in Paris awarded 2022 Olympic medals to US and Japanese figure skaters
The awards ceremony for the team figure skating tournament at the 2022 Beijing Games was held without the Russian team. The broadcast was conducted on the website of the International Olympic Committee (IOC).
The ceremony took place at the Eiffel Tower as part of the “Day of Justice” — an event to present awards redistributed as a result of doping incidents. The gold medals went to the US team, silver to the Japanese team. The bronze went to the Russian team, but they were not invited to the ceremony.
Earlier, the Russian team appealed to the Visiting Panel of the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS Ad Hoc Division) with a demand to cancel the award ceremony for the US and Japanese teams. The Russians wanted to cancel the event because they did not receive an invitation to it. According to the athletes, this violates their rights as Olympic medalists.
On January 30, the medals of the team tournament were redistributed due to the disqualification and annulment of the results of Russian Kamila Valieva. The Russian team moved from first to third place. All appeals in the case were rejected.
On January 29, Valieva was disqualified for four years for violating anti-doping rules. The suspension period is counted from the moment the sample was taken – December 25, 2021. All the athlete’s results from this date were annulled. In particular, Valieva, along with her teammates on the Russian national team, was stripped of the gold for winning the team tournament at the 2022 Olympic Games
Source: Lenta
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