Athletistic/Figure skating. 2002 Olympic silver medalist in ice dancing Ilya Averbukh commented on the news that the Russian figure skating team retained the bronze medal in the team tournament at the 2022 Games. On August 2, CAS rejected the appeal of the Canadian team, which claimed third place.

“In my opinion, we won, period! Kamila passed the test at the Olympics and there were no questions. This means that all athletes were absolutely free of doping at the start! The situation with Valieva should not affect the team, it is purely her personal case. So the Russians are Olympic champions! – Averbukh said in an interview with SE.

Recall that on January 30, the ISU deprived the Russian team of a gold medal in the team tournament due to the participation of Kamila Valieva, who was disqualified. After the recalculation of the results, taking into account the cancellation of her results, Russia moved up to third place, the gold medals went to the American team and the silver medal to the Japanese team.

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