The Russian team won the team competition at the 2022 Games. They were followed by the American team and the Japanese team was in third place. However, the medals were never awarded due to the doping case of Russian figure skater Kamila Valieva.
“I think there is no point in reconsidering the decision regarding the team medal. Who is responsible for the fact that this athlete was included in the team? Our team? No. Was the athlete fit for the Games Olympics? Yes.
How did he end up in the Olympics? Questions should be directed to WADA. Whose? I do not know who. Laboratories. Then let them proceed to reprint the medal as they see fit. It’s their mistake. It’s not the team’s fault. The medal is not subject to revision.
If they had discovered doping earlier, more would have happened – Anya Shcherbakova and Sasha Trusova. And the team’s results would have been exactly the same – they would have won too,” Tutberidze said in the “Comment Trainer” program.
Valieva helped the Russian team achieve victory in the team competition at the 2022 Olympic Games in Beijing. Before the individual competitions, the presence of trimetazidine, a banned drug, became known during the skater’s doping control carried out in December at the Russian Championship. CAS allowed Valieva to participate in the individual competitions of the Games, where she took fourth place.
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At the end of September, the CAS announced that the hearings in the Valieva case had been postponed and would resume on November 9 and 10.
Source: Sport
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