American Olympians Must Leave Beijing Without Their Medals

Because of a doping scandal involving a Russian figure skater, American figure skaters who finished second in the team figure skating event have been denied the chance to have their medals awarded before the end of the Olympics.

On Feb. 7, Russia won the team figure skating event, led by 15-year-old Kamila Valieva. Team USA came in second.

After the event, a drug test from December surfaced, showing that Valieva had a banned drug in her system at that time. That led to her temporarily being banned from competing in the individual event, a decision which was later reversed and which became moot when she suffered through a fourth-place performance that was not up to the standard she set for herself earlier in the Games.

In the meantime, America’s skaters wanted their medals.

The Court of Arbitration for Sport dismissed that appeal, according to KSDK-TV.

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Did anybody REALLY believe that Americans or anybody else were going to be leaving the olympics with medals??

Well, yes, of course Americans and everyone else will leave the games with medals.

IOC's handling of the figure skating was a total debacle and it's a shame the runners up to ROC did not receive their medals before the end of the games but if ROC is disqualified the US team will be awarded the gold, Japan silver and Canada bronze.

Red Lily wrote:Well, yes, of course Americans and everyone else will leave the games with medals.

IOC's handling of the figure skating was a total debacle and it's a shame the runners up to ROC did not receive their medals before the end of the games but if ROC is disqualified the US team will be awarded the gold, Japan silver and Canada bronze.

I'm expecting China to come up with more things like they detected drugs or something to disqualify teams, hoping their's will win that way...

Well the games are finished so it's a bit late for that.

Red Lily wrote:Well the games are finished so it's a bit late for that.

Well...guess you know now, I didn't watch a bit of it.