Kamila Valieva DQ’ed; Russia to lose ’22 skating gold to U.S.

LAUSANNE, Switzerland — Russian figure skater Kamila Valieva was disqualified Monday from the 2022 Olympics, nearly two years after her doping case sparked unrest at the Beijing Games.

The Court of Arbitration for Sport's verdict means the Russians will be stripped of the gold medal in the figure skating team event. The United States finished second and should be named Olympic champions in their place.

The International Olympic Committee decided not to award any medals for the Beijing event, where Valieva, then 15, was the star star hours before her positive test for a banned heart drug came to light.

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

The CAS banned it for four years, until December 2025.