Within hours of the ISU announcement, the Russian Olympic Committee said it had begun preparing documents for an appeal. Still, the ISU’s determination is the first time anyone has assigned Team USA—even in theory—gold medals for the Beijing Winter Olympics team event. But in an acutely awkward twist, the ISU said the Russian Olympic Committee should only lose the points earned for it by Valieva—putting them in third place in the revised standings. The Russian Olympic Committee said Monday that “a war has been declared on Russian sport, and in this war, as we see, all means are allowed." An Olympic medal ceremony was hastily postponed, and the outcome of the team event has been in limbo ever since.

Source: Wall Street Journal January 30, 2024 17:27 UTC