The International Skating Union (ISU) deprived the Russian national team figure skating gold in the team tournament of the 2022 Olympics in Beijing for violating anti-doping rules by Kamila Valieva. Now our athletes are only bronze medalists of the Games (we are talking about Mark Kondratyuk, Anastasia Mishina, Alexander Gallyamov, Victoria Sinitsina and Nikita Katsalapov); silver will go to Japan, and representatives of the United States will become the new Olympic champions.
The day before, the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) disqualified Valieva for four years and deprived the 17-year-old athlete of all medals won since December 25, 2021 (on this day a positive test was taken ).
We have already seen something similar. In 2020, the International Biathlon Union (IBU) accused Russian Evgeniy Ustyugov of using oxandrolone. The athlete, who has completed his career, is still trying to prove to the Court of Arbitration for Sport that he had elevated hemoglobin not due to the use of prohibited drugs, but due to a rare feature of the body.
Despite the athlete’s arguments during the appeal, Ustyugov may be finally deprived of both gold in the mass start and bronze in the relay at the 2010 Games in Vancouver, Canada, and gold in the relay at the home Olympics, which took place in 2014 in Sochi. Considering the West's policy towards domestic athletes, we admit that the worst-case scenario is more than likely. Then Ustyugov’s partners in the triumphal relay Alexei Volkov, Anton Shipulin and Dmitry Malyshko will also be left without medals of the highest standard, and the Russian team will lose first place in the medal standings of the Sochi Games.
Sports officials adhered to the same position during the sentencing of the famous Russian bobsledder Alexander Zubkov. He was stripped of two gold medals from the Sochi Games for violating anti-doping rules and was banned for life from the Olympics.
Since Zubkov was the best in the two-man and four-man competitions, his crew members: Alexey Voevoda, Dmitry Trunenkov and Alexey Negodaylo were also left without medals.< br> 
And now the fun part: Meet Crystal Cox. This is an American athlete who came to the Olympic Games in Athens in the summer of 2004. And she even became a champion in the 4×400 m relay.
However, in 2010, the media thundered: Cox admitted to using anabolic steroids for several years. And this period lasted right before the Athens Games. Subsequently, the American lost all awards won in 2001-2004 and served a four-year disqualification. The Olympic gold also had to be returned. But only to her! She did not participate in the relay final, so the IOC and the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) took pity on the top finishers Didi Trotter, Monique Henderson, Sanya Richards and Monique Hennagan, allowing them to keep their medals. And this despite the fact that the IAAF initially recommended that all female runners be sanctioned.
And the US women's team was almost deprived of gold in the 2000 Olympics in the 4×400 m relay and bronze in the 4×100 m relay due to doping in the test of the notorious Marion Jones. The athlete returned her medals (she returned from Australia with five awards), but the rest of the Americans reached out to CAS and won the case in 2010.
Compare with the scandal that erupted around Valieva… Double standards cannot be avoided.
There is another example — the Brazilian volleyball team at the Tokyo Olympics. Finisher Tandara Kaysheta was disqualified for doping, and at those Games she was one of the best in the team.
But the result, according to the provisions of the World Anti-Doping Code, was not annulled: the Brazilians remained with silver. After all, for a team to be suspended, more than two of its members must violate anti-doping rules.
But the USA still punished The story of Tyson Gay, the famous American sprinter, who in 2012 was part of the USA team in the 4×100 m relay and won a silver medal at the Games in London, has not been forgotten. However, in the summer of 2013, shortly before the World Championships in Moscow, the athlete was caught doping: it turned out that the use of prohibited substances was repeated more than once. The United States Anti-Doping Agency (USADA) was forced not only to suspend the star, but also to deprive him of his London silver.
True, in the case of three-time world champion Gay, the IOC did not cooperate The States and in 2015 stripped the entire US relay team of medals. As a result, Trell Kimmons, Justin Gatlin, Ryan Bailey, Jeff Demps and Darvis Patton were still left without awards. Later, Gatlin, who was caught doping twice, admitted that he was not sorry to return the Olympic medal, “because it was won dishonestly.”
In addition, the IOC stripped the US relay team of medals again: the men’s team was left without gold in the 4×400 m relay. at the 2000 Games in Sydney because of Antonio Pettigrew.
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