Russia Appeals Loss of Olympic Gold as Kremlin Condemns Valieva Doping Ban

MOSCOW—Russia said on Tuesday it would appeal a decision to strip it of an Olympic gold medal after the Kremlin condemned a doping ban against teenage figure skater Kamila Valieva as politically motivated. The Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) on Monday banned Valieva for four years for doping, effective from December 2021, a decision that also stripped the Russian Olympic Committee’s gold medal in the team event at the 2022 Beijing Winter Games nearly two years after the competition. “We do not agree with these decisions—neither with the decision of the court, nor with the decision of the (ice skating) federation. We don’t accept them,” Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said, a day after he described the CAS ruling as political....