On March 31, Beijing time, the World Championships in Montpellier, France has ended, the Japanese figure skating team has become the big winner, their male player Masama Uno won the men's singles championship, the female player Hanaori Sakamoto won the women's singles championship, the American team won the double skating championship, and the French team won the double dance championship. For the Chinese who like figure skating, there is not much expectation for this World Championships, after all, Russia's three nest dolls have not participated, and the International Skating Federation has completely banned Russian athletes, so that in this women's single skating competition, no player challenged 4 weeks to jump, and the American female player Liu Meixian (the third runner-up of the World Championships) challenged 3 weeks to jump 3A and wrestled.
The World Championship champion is also Sakamoto's first world champion, and all three Russian dolls have the ability to jump in 4 weeks, so if they compete, Sakamoto Hanaori will not be able to win the championship. Unable to participate in the Figure Skating World Championships, the Russian Ice Association held its own channel cup, the same time as the World Championships in France, "Qianjin" Serbakova led the team to the first place, Valieva won the second place. In order to get Russian athletes back to the world competition, according to Russian media reports, the Russian Ice Federation has appealed to CAS (International Court of Arbitration for Sport) because the International Skating Federation has banned Russian athletes and officials from participating in the World Championships and banned television broadcasts, hoping that CAS can give a fair sentence.
This is not the first time that Russian sports institutions have appealed to CAS, before, the Russian men's football team was also banned by UEFA and FIFA, they did not qualify for the World Preliminary Round play-off match against Poland, the result was that Poland eliminated Sweden at home, Sweden played overtime with the Czech Republic in the semi-finals, the physical consumption was not small, and Poland took advantage of the qatar World Cup finals. The Russian Football Federation also appealed to CAS in hopes of qualifying for the World Preliminary Tournament play-offs, but CAS rejected their complaints.
We often say that sports have no borders, sports have nothing to do with politics, but all this seems to be a joke, CAS, FIFA, THE INTERNATIONAL SKATING and the International Olympic Committee attitude are the same, will stand against Russia, so this time the Russian Ice Association appeal, the result we can all guess in advance, it is definitely invalid appeal.
Russian figure skaters want to return to the World Championships, or need the consent of the International Skating Federation, after all, there is no Russian athlete to participate in the figure skating competition does not have a point of view, equivalent to a table tennis event without the Chinese team to participate, even if the award does not have too much gold content, the ratings are not much better. These international institutions shout the slogan of "sports without borders" every day, but in reality they punch themselves in the face again and again, which is really infuriating.