Athletistic / Figure skating. Former Russian figure skater Alexander Enbert commented on the decision of the International Skating Union (ISU) to recalculate the final points of the team championship of the Olympic Games in Beijing (China).

The Russian team won the championship. But due to the disqualification of Kamila Valieva for doping, the Russian team was deprived of 20 points. As a result, the team dropped to 3rd place, losing gold medals.

Valieva’s social media post after her disqualification garnered over 100,000 comments

“The rules for figure skating team tournaments are not as established as in some other team competitions, such as football or hockey.

The decisions could have been different, and I think that, given the context of everything that happened, the fact that our team ended up with Olympic medals is not the worst decision we could have made. wait,” Gazeta.ru quotes Enbert as saying.


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