American figure skater Fraser said Russia tried to challenge the holding of the medal ceremony for the 2022 Olympic team tournament without the Russians.

American figure skater Brandon Fraser It was reported that the Russian side tried to challenge the holding of the medal ceremony of the team tournament of the Beijing Olympic Games, which took place on Wednesday in Paris, without the participation of Russian athletes.

Earlier, the International Skating Union (ISU) redistributed the tournament’s medals after Russia’s Kamila Valieva was disqualified for an anti-doping rule violation. 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 appealing the ISU decision to CAS. Last week, the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) announced that the arbitrators had rejected the Canadian side’s appeal and awarded the Russian skaters the bronze medal.

According to RIA Novosti Sport, the Russian figure skating team has appealed to the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) to cancel the awards ceremony for the American and Japanese teams without the participation of the Russians. Later, figure skater Alexander Gallyamov told that he was “hearing for the first time” about an appeal to the CAS demanding the cancellation of the awards ceremony for the American and Japanese teams.

“We were completely focused on ourselves and what we had achieved. We achieved it through pure sport and hard work. We would like to enjoy this moment to the fullest. At that moment, we focused on ourselves, on the American team,” the correspondent reports, according to Fraser.

Valieva, Mark Kondratyuk, Anastasia Mishina and Alexander Gallyamov, Victoria Sinitsina and Nikita Katsalapov performed for the Russian team in Beijing.

The award ceremony took place on Wednesday in Paris without the participation of the Russians.

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