Tarasova called the IOC idiots for its decision not to invite Russian figure skaters to the awards in Paris

Honored Coach of the USSR in Figure Skating Tatiana Tarasova In a conversation with , she called the decision not to invite Russian athletes to the official award ceremony for the medalists of the 2022 Olympic team tournament at the 2024 Games in Paris cynical.

On Friday, the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) announced that it had rejected the Canadian side’s appeal against the results of the team figure skating competition at the 2022 Olympic Games. The Russian athletes retained their bronze medals. The awards ceremony will take place on August 7 in Paris and will bring together gold and silver medalists – figure skaters from the United States and Japan.

Earlier, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) told that Russian athletes would not be able to attend the awards due to the suspension of the Russian Olympic Committee (ROC) and logistical issues.

— What does complex logistics mean? Wow, how clever. They talk about eliminating OCD, but why can’t athletes win their own awards? I don’t understand it at all and I never will. This is a very cynical statement from the IOC. How can you not invite athletes? This was decided by idiots, cynics and incomprehensible people.

— Is it good that we got the bronze?

– It’s good that it’s at least bronze. I’m sure that in different circumstances we could have won gold, – Tarasova told .

The Russian team won the team figure skating tournament at the 2022 Games, 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 overturning 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 finished fourth, also claimed third place by filing an appeal with CAS against the ISU decision, which was rejected.

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.

In October 2023, the IOC suspended the ROC due to the inclusion of the Olympic councils of the DPR, LPR, Zaporozhye and Kherson regions in the organization.

At the Paris Games, 15 Russian athletes will perform in a neutral situation and without national symbols.

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