Canada will not get a bronze medal in the 2022 Olympic team figure skating event after a court ruling on Friday, per Devin Heroux of CBC Olympics.
The Court of Arbitration for Sport dismissed Canada’s appeal in the aftermath of a Russian scandal. Russia, therefore, gets to keep a bronze medal.
Canada finished fourth behind Russia, the U.S. and Japan.
But the U.S. and Japan were upgraded to gold and silver after Russia’s Karina Valieva was disqualified for doping.
Valieva, who was 15 years old in Beijing, starred as the Russians easily won the team event. No medals were presented because a positive doping test for a banned heart medication, from a sample Valieva gave in Russia six weeks earlier, was revealed on the day the team event ended.
Without Valieva’s scores when she was disqualified, the Russians dropped to third in the revised result signed off by the International Skating Union.
A Russian appeal was denied in a separate ruling last month, allowing the U.S. and Japan to receive their medals.
— with files from AP.
