After two years of legal wrangling, the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) ruled in January to impose a four-year doping ban on Russian teenager Kamila Valieva. As a result, the USA were promoted to the gold medal position by CAS, Japan took silver and Russia finished third after Valieva's result was disqualified.

Russia quickly appealed the CAS decision to the Swiss Supreme Court, while Skate Canada and the Canadian Olympic Committee (COC) also filed an appeal. "The multiple appeals may indeed delay the awarding of these medals, although it is our hope and sincere interest to be able to award these medals in Paris," said USOPC CEO Sarah Hirshland.

Officials announced at the anti-doping body's annual conference on Tuesday that WADA will seek to revise its anti-doping rules before the 2026 Winter Olympics in Italy. "It is clear that the taste of this case is very unpleasant," said WADA Director General Olivier Niggli.

So far, only one person has been punished, even though the World Anti-Doping Code calls for investigations into people who work with underage athletes involved in doping cases. "The evidence is not there," Niggli admitted when asked about a direct link between the coach and Valieva's doping case.

"Perhaps this case shows how important it is that we have to improve the anti-doping system. We are doing it now," stressed WADA President Witold Banka. The skater's suspension will end three weeks after WADA's upcoming global review of the anti-doping code in Busan, South Korea, in December 2025.

The court did not set a definitive timetable for the review of the latest appeals. The medal ceremony in Beijing was cancelled due to the case and has not yet been rescheduled.