“It would be absolutely unfair if Russian figure skaters were deprived of bronze medals at the 2022 Olympics” – Radionova

World Championship bronze medalist Elena Radionova said the decision of the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) to reject the Canadian side’s appeal against the results of the team figure skating tournament at the 2022 Olympic Games in Beijing is good news for Russia.

On Friday, CAS announced that it had rejected the Canadian side’s appeal against the results of the figure skating team competition at the 2022 Olympic Games. The Russian athletes retained their bronze medals.

– This is good news for us. We will have bronze medals, and if they were also deprived of them, the decision would be absolutely unfair, “Radionova told .

The Russian team won the team tournament, but after Kamila Valieva was disqualified for an anti-doping rule violation, the results of the competition were revised. The International Skating Union (ISU), after canceling Valieva’s results, placed the American team in first place, the Japanese team in second place, and the Russian team was supposed to receive bronze. Team Canada, which placed fourth, also claimed third place by filing an appeal with CAS against the ISU decision.

As a result, the American team took first place in the tournament with 65 points, the Japanese team (63) took second place, and the Russian team (54) took third place. Valieva, Mark Kondratyuk, Anastasia Mishina and Alexander Gallyamov, Victoria Sinitsina and Nikita Katsalapov performed for the Russian team in Beijing.

Earlier it was reported that the medal ceremony, which will be attended by Americans and Japanese, will take place on August 7 in Paris.

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