U.S. figure skaters have become Olympic champions in the team event at the 2022 Olympic Games in Beijing, ahead of Japan and Russia to win the silver and bronze medals, respectively, the International Skating Federation (ISU) decided on Tuesday. awarded them the points taken from the Russians, received by Kamila Valieva after her disqualification for doping, reports AFP.

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Without Kamila Valiyeva’s points, Russia finished 3rd at the 2022 Olympics in Beijing

Russia dominated the team events at the Winter Olympics in the Chinese capital in February 2022, but the IOC canceled the awards ceremony after the case of Kamila Valieva, who tested positive during the Russian Games, became public. The championship, which was held in December 2021.

A star at the 2022 Games, which she competed in when she was just 15, Valieva landed the first-ever women’s quadruple jump in Beijing, lifting her team to the top of the collective standings.

Even without Valiyeva’s scores, the Russian Olympic Committee athletes, competing under a neutral flag due to sanctions imposed on Russia at the end of 2020 for its institutionalized doping system, earned a place on the podium at Canada’s expense. taking the fourth position, reports Agerpres.

The International Skating Federation took note of the decision made on Monday by the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) in Lausanne, which banned Valieva for four years, starting on December 25, 2021, and also stripped her of her European champion title. champion of 2022, as well as the fourth place won in the individual competition at the 2022 Olympic Games.

Valieva tested positive for trimetazidine, a banned substance, during a test at the Russian championships in December 2021, but the result was not released until February 8, 2022, a day after the teenager helped Russia win the team competition at the Chinese Olympics. .

In her defense, Valiyeva said the positive test was the result of an accidental infection, given that her grandfather, who took her to practice every day, was at the time being treated with trimetazidine, a substance that was found in low concentrations in the figure skater’s samples. .

During the Games in Beijing, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) decided not to award medals in team figure skating competitions until Valieva’s case is resolved.

CAS, at the end of a closed hearing that began last September and resumed in November, assessed on Monday that Valieva had “failed to establish” with sufficiently convincing evidence that she “did not dope intentionally”.