Former Minister of Sports of the Russian Federation, Olympic fencing champion Pavel Kolobkov told that the legal proceedings do not invalidate the performance of Russian figure skaters at the Beijing Olympics;
The Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) has dismissed the Canadian side’s appeal against the results of the team figure skating tournament at the 2022 Olympic Games in Beijing. The Russian athletes retained their bronze medals.
— For me, our guys are champions. I think we still have to find out what happened there. But from the point of view of the competitive process, our guys showed themselves, there were excellent performances.
“An unfortunate accident happened. However, for me, it does not call into question the performance of our athletes. But the third, fourth or other place does not matter. For me, they are champions,” Kolobkov told .
Earlier, the ISU redistributed the medals for the 2022 team tournament after Russia’s Kamila Valieva was disqualified for an anti-doping rule violation. In January, the ISU annulled Valieva’s results and moved the Russian team from first to third place. The U.S. team took first place and Japan took second. Team Canada, which placed fourth, also claimed third place by filing an appeal with CAS against the ISU decision.
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