Members of the U.S. figure skating team will receive their 2022 gold medals at the Paris Olympics after a sports court ruling on Thursday.
“We are thrilled to finally honor these incredible athletes," Sarah Hirshland, chief executive of the U.S. Olympic and Paralympic Committee, said in a statement.“We are thrilled to finally honor these incredible athletes," Sarah Hirshland, chief executive of the U.S. Olympic and Paralympic Committee, said in a statement."We are especially excited that the beautiful city of Paris will join us in this celebration.
Now, Evan Bates, Karen Chen, Nathan Chen, Madison Chock, Zachary Donohue, Brandon Frazier, Madison Hubbell, Alexa Knierim and Vincent Zhou should be coming to Paris as official Olympic champions.On Thursday, CAS said three judges dismissed Russian appeals to be reinstated as the team gold medalist. The Olympic title was lost in January when
“We are glad that this opportunity can be offered to the athletes and teams who, unfortunately, had to wait for a very long time for their medals due to the ongoing legal case,” the Olympic body said. She was eventually cleared by a Russian anti-doping tribunal that ruled she was not at fault for being contaminated by her grandfather's prescription for trimetazidine. The proof was lacking, and the World Anti-Doping Agency appealed to CAS.Without Valieva’s scores when she was disqualified, the Russians dropped to third in the revised result signed off by the International Skating Union.
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