Olympics: No medals for U.S. figure skaters after appeal denied by CAS

The Court of Arbitration for Sport on Saturday rejected an appeal from nine American figure skaters to have their team silver medals awarded before the end of the Beijing Games.The skaters filed the request independently of the United States Olympic and Paralympic Committee, with the group including men's singles gold medalist Nathan Chen.The International Olympic Committee decided not to hold the team figure skating medal ceremony involving the winning Russian Olympic Committee team as well as the second and third-placed teams from the United States and Japan after Russian women's singles …READ FULL ARTICLE