“Now the Olympic world is structured in such a way that they whip each other” – Zhurova on the medal ceremony for figure skaters at the 2022 Olympics

Olympic speed skating champion, deputy of the State Duma of the Russian Federation Svetlana Jourova told that the International Olympic Committee was showing its face by not inviting Russian figure skaters to the awards ceremony of the 2022 Olympic Games.

On Friday, the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) rejected the Canadian side’s appeal against the results of the team figure skating competition at the 2022 Olympic Games. 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.

“This is how the Olympic world works today, they flog themselves, show their faces. It can’t be like this. The whole world knows how the competition ended, the IOC acknowledges it, but it won’t give any awards,” Zhurova 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.

TV Match

More sports news in our telegram channel .