Katie Uhlaender's Olympic bid case heads to Court of Arbitration for Sport

The Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS), the world's highest tribunal for settling disputes related to planetary athletics, volition perceive an entreaty by American skeleton jock Katie Uhlaender for a spot successful the upcoming Milan Cortina Olympics. 

Uhlaender is seeking qualification aft she missed retired connected the accidental to suffice erstwhile Team Canada withdrew athletes from the North America Cup earlier this month, reducing the magnitude of points that the lawsuit could award. The constituent simplification made it intolerable for Uhlaender to gain capable to qualify. 

Now, CAS volition reappraisal the case. 

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"Ms Uhlaender requests that CAS find whether a determination by BCS to retreat 4 of its athletes from the 11 January 2026 IBSF North American Cup Race was successful usurpation of the Olympic Movement Code connected the Prevention of the Manipulation of Competitions, and that BCS coaches violated the IBSF Code of Conduct," CAS said successful a statement, per Reuters.

The proceeding is acceptable for Sunday morning. 

An probe by the International Bobsleigh and Skeleton Federation (IBSF) recovered that Team Canada intentionally manipulated the points astatine the contention successful Lake Placid. However, the IBSF besides did not revise immoderate of the results oregon present immoderate penalties arsenic a result. 

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Katie Uhlaender of the U.S. reacts aft the women’s skeleton vigor 2 tally during the Pyeongchang 2018 Winter Olympic Games astatine the Olympic Sliding Center successful Pyeongchang, South Korea, connected Feb. 16, 2018. (Mark Ralston / AFP via Getty Images)

"Although Canada subsequently attributed its determination to bid 4 athletes not to descent successful Official Training to concerns astir the athletes involved, important grounds supports Ms. Uhlaender's contention that the determination was a deliberate effort by Canada to trim the points disposable astatine the last Lake Placid NAC truthful arsenic to support its ain Olympic quotas," the IBSF said.

"Although the disqualification of an jock and cancellation of results whitethorn person collateral impacts (other participants moving up successful authoritative finishes, for example) the Olympic Movement Code does not acceptable retired standards oregon means by which lawsuit records tin beryllium changed different than done sanctions," the announcement read. 

The U.S. Olympic and Paralympic Committee (USOPC) has sent a missive to the International Olympic Committee (IOC) petitioning to person Uhlaender granted a spot. Fifteen different countries person joined successful connected that petition.

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Katie Uhlaender (U.S.) competes successful the women’s skeleton lawsuit astatine the Pyeongchang 2018 Olympic Winter Games astatine the Olympic Sliding Center successful Pyeongchang, South Korea, connected Feb. 17, 2018. (James Lang/USA TODAY Sports)

Canadian nationalist squad skeleton manager Joe Cecchini has defended the determination to retreat the athletes earlier this month. 

"This is each wrong the rules. There's thing incorrect with those things. And radical tin beryllium strategical successful the races that they participate. And she was doing that, and different nations were doing that, due to the fact that you privation to enactment your champion ft forward," Cecchini told CBC News. "This is simply a strategy flaw, if anything. But we were wrong the rules."

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