Russian figure skater Kamila Valieva has been disqualified from the 2022 Olympics. The verdict comes almost two years after the doping case caused turmoil at the Beijing Games.

Russian figure skater Kamila Valieva was disqualified from the 2022 Olympics on Monday, almost two years after her doping case caused turmoil at the Beijing Games.

The verdict from the Court of Arbitration for Sport means the Russians are set to be stripped of the gold medal in figure skating’s team event. The United States finished second and is set to be named Olympic champion instead.

The International Olympic Committee decided not to present any medals for the event in Beijing, where the 15-year-old Valieva was the star performer hours before her positive test for a banned heart medicine was revealed.

CAS said it upheld appeals led by the World Anti-Doping Agency, which asked the court to disqualify Valieva from the Olympics and ban her. A Russian sports tribunal had cleared her of any blame.

    • circuscritic@lemmy.caEnglish
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      10 months ago

      Isn’t it more racist to act as if being Russian is a singular racial demographic?

      Russia is an empire, a decaying one, but still, it’s full of a wide variety of different racial groups that aren’t Slavic in origin.

      Also, when people criticize the actions of the American government, should we all accuse them of being racist towards… Americans?