Katie Uhlaender reacts to court's ruling on Olympic bid, fires back at Canada's coach

Olympic hopeful Katie Uhlaender reacted to the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS)’s ruling aft she made a lawsuit to articulation Team USA for the Milan Cortina Winter Games.

The CAS said it had nary jurisdiction to see her lawsuit against Bobsleigh Canada Skeleton (BCS) manager Joe Cecchini and the International Bobsled and Skeleton Federation (IBSF) implicit the results of the IBSF North American Cup Race and Skeleton qualification for a spot successful the Winter Olympics.

Uhlaender appeared connected Fox News Channel’s "America’s Newsroom" and told anchor Dana Perino that she didn’t needfully disagree with the ruling but she is present astatine a crossroads.

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Katie Uhlaender (USA) competes successful ladies skeleton vigor 4 during the Pyeongchang 2018 Olympic Winter Games astatine Olympic Sliding Centre connected Feb. 17, 2018. (Soobum Im/USA TODAY Sports)

"I don’t cognize that I disagree that it was retired of their jurisdiction to beryllium fair. The quality happened anterior to the 10-day window," she said. "What I privation to hap is – something. I don’t cognize what the solution is astatine this constituent due to the fact that I’ve exhausted each of these pathways wrong the strategy and from what I could understand, it volition beryllium up to the IOC and perchance the IBSF to allocate an other spot for utmost circumstances. But we don’t cognize who should inquire for that oregon precisely however to bash it. This is wherever I’d inquire (Vice President) Vance for help."

Uhlaender sought qualification aft she missed retired connected the accidental to suffice erstwhile Team Canada withdrew athletes from the North American Cup contention successful aboriginal January, reducing the fig of points that the lawsuit could award. The constituent simplification made it intolerable for Uhlaender to gain capable to qualify.

An probe by the IBSF recovered that Team Canada intentionally manipulated the points astatine the contention successful Lake Placid, New York. However, the IBSF besides did not revise immoderate of the results oregon present immoderate penalties arsenic a result. The U.S. Olympic and Paralympic Committee (USOPC) 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 of Team United States poses for a representation during the Team USA Beijing 2022 Olympic sprout successful Irvine, California, connected Sept. 12, 2021. (Tom Pennington/Getty Images for Team USA)

"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 said. "This is simply a strategy flaw, if anything. But we were wrong the rules."

Cecchini besides took purpose straight astatine Uhlaender, saying she isn’t a "top-tier athlete."

"I don’t truly wanna talk negatively astir Katie, but Katie was not connected the World Cup team. She wasn’t a top-tier jock successful that programme anymore. She was astatine the extremity of her career. I would personally would alternatively contention against Katie. She’s not arsenic competitory arsenic the different athletes," helium said. "It’s astir apt truly unfair to accidental and not truly wherever I privation to spell with this but that’s wherever we are with that."

Uhlaender said connected Fox News Channel that Cecchini wasn’t truly addressing the contented astatine heart.

"I deliberation that effect says it each due to the fact that he’s not addressing the contented astatine all, which is that helium intentionally tricked each the countries into reasoning this contention was afloat points," she said. "He urged maine to travel contention determination and then, astatine the past second, helium pulled each of his athletes. He didn’t fell it. He told me, helium told different manager that helium did it for the points, and helium knew helium was going to wounded maine and helium knew helium was gonna wounded the Denmark jock and the Swiss miss mightiness person to discontinue due to the fact that of this and helium didn’t care. He said helium wanted to destruct immoderate possibilities that could endanger Canada’s 2nd spot adjacent if it was conscionable 1%. And the bittersweet portion is, determination was nary threat.

"At the extremity of the races, the Korean jock was not gonna surpass Canada. He wounded each of america conscionable due to the fact that helium wanted to destruct immoderate possibility, which is not successful the tone of sport. And that’s the point. It’s not that it wasn’t wrong the rules – you should beryllium capable to propulsion athletes for morganatic reasons. But not to wounded people."

Team USA skeleton hopeful Katie Uhlaender poses for a photograph during the 2018 U.S. Olympic Team media acme astatine the Grand Summit Hotel connected Sept. 25, 2017. (Kevin Jairaj/USA TODAY Sports)

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Uhlaender added that she had hoped to beryllium capable to vie successful her six Olympic Games and articulation Lindsey Vonn arsenic the lone 2 athletes to person competed successful 2002 and 2026.

As of now, it doesn’t look similar it volition happen.

Fox News' Jackson Thompson contributed to this report.

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