“For me and all the fans, our skaters will remain gold medalists at the 2022 Olympic team tournament” – Herboldt

Bronze medalist of the Russian Figure Skating Championship Katharina Gerboldt told that for her, the Russian participants in the team tournament of the 2022 Olympic Games will remain gold medalists of the Games.

On Friday, the Court of Arbitration for Sport (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.

“I am incredibly happy, I would like to congratulate all the guys. Unfortunately, they will not receive gold. But for me and for all the fans, our athletes will remain Olympic gold medalists. Given this situation, it is better to be bronze than to lose any reward. Of course, I would like to attend the awards ceremony,” Gerboldt 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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