Current:Home > MarketsCAS ruling on Kamila Valieva case means US skaters can finally get gold medals-LoTradeCoin
CAS ruling on Kamila Valieva case means US skaters can finally get gold medals
View Date:2024-12-23 20:58:05
PARIS — Almost 2 1/2 years after the team figure skating competition was held at the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics, a medal ceremony for the gold-medal-winning U.S. skaters at the 2024 Paris Summer Olympics is becoming closer to reality.
On Thursday, the Court of Arbitration for Sport dismissed three Russian appeals of CAS’s January 29, 2024 decision to suspend Russian star Kamila Valieva for four years and disqualify her Olympic results.
The appeals were from the Russian Olympic Committee, the Russian figure skating federation and the six skaters who comprised the Russian team that originally won the gold medal, with the United States taking silver and Japan bronze.
When CAS suspended and disqualified Valieva, who was 15 at the time of the 2022 Olympics, the results changed with the U.S. moving up to gold and Japan to silver. There is still a dispute in front of CAS over which nation will win the bronze, Canada or Russia. Deliberations are continuing in that matter.
But for the United States and Japan, this is the news athletes and officials have been waiting for — for months. Officials within the International Olympic Committee, the U.S. Olympic & Paralympic Committee and U.S. Figure Skating are now in discussions to confirm if the planned August 7 medal ceremony will indeed take place.
Meet Team USA: See which athletes made the U.S. Olympic team and where they are from
The USOPC and USFS have been working on possible travel plans for the nine U.S. team members and their families even before the final CAS decision was announced. Hotel rooms in Paris are on hold and special medal ceremony outfits for the team were being made.
Valieva led Russia to the gold medal in the Olympic team skating competition in Beijing on Feb. 7, 2022. The next day, the medal ceremony for the event was canceled and the results were thrown into disarray after Valieva was found to have tested positive for the banned heart medication trimetazidine (TMZ) six weeks earlier at the Russian championships. CAS ruled that Valieva’s four-year suspension started on the date she took that test, Dec. 25, 2021.
Thus began the arduous and ridiculously delayed international investigative and appeals process, leading to Thursday’s CAS decision.
“We are thrilled to finally honor these incredible athletes," USOPC CEO Sarah Hirshland told USA TODAY Sports. "As we finalize the details of the award ceremony in collaboration with the International Olympic Committee and U.S. Figure Skating, we will share updates as soon as they are confirmed. We are especially excited that the beautiful city of Paris will join us in this celebration."
veryGood! (389)
Related
- Hurricane-damaged Tropicana Field can be fixed for about $55M in time for 2026 season, per report
- GOP candidate Vivek Ramaswamy talks need for fresh leadership, Iowa caucuses
- Family sues school district over law that bans transgender volleyball player from girls’ sports
- U.S. warns of using dating apps after suspicious deaths of 8 Americans in Colombia
- Groups seek a new hearing on a Mississippi mail-in ballot lawsuit
- Alaska ombudsman says Adult Protective Services’ negligent handling of vulnerable adult led to death
- Hertz is selling Teslas for as little as $21,000, as it offloads the pricey EVs from its rental fleet
- 2 brothers fall into frozen pond while ice fishing on New York lake, 1 survives and 1 dies
- Krispy Kreme is giving free dozens to early customers on World Kindness Day
- Massachusetts man to buy safe car for daughter, grandchild with $1 million lottery win
Ranking
- DWTS' Gleb Savchenko Shares Why He Ended Brooks Nader Romance Through Text Message
- How much do surrogates make and cost? People describe the real-life dollars and cents of surrogacy.
- Counting the days: Families of Hamas hostages prepare to mark loved ones’ 100th day in captivity
- The US struggles to sway Israel on its treatment of Palestinians. Why Netanyahu is unlikely to yield
- Worker trapped under rubble after construction accident in Kentucky
- Navy officer who’d been jailed in Japan over deadly crash now released from US custody, family says
- Crash between school bus, coal truck sends 20 children to hospital
- As a new generation rises, tension between free speech and inclusivity on college campuses simmers
Recommendation
-
Food prices worried most voters, but Trump’s plans likely won’t lower their grocery bills
-
Iowa campaign events are falling as fast as the snow as the state readies for record-cold caucuses
-
Navy helicopter crashes into San Diego Bay, all 6 people on board survive
-
Tearful Russian billionaire who spent $2 billion on art tells jurors Sotheby’s cheated him
-
Vogue Model Dynus Saxon Charged With Murder After Stabbing Attack
-
Pat McAfee. Aaron Rodgers. Culture wars. ESPN. Hypocrisy. Jemele Hill talks it all.
-
Simone Biles talks Green Bay Packers fans, husband Jonathan Owens, Taylor Swift at Lambeau
-
Blinken meets Chinese and Japanese diplomats, seeks stability as Taiwan voters head to the polls