More than two years after competing in the 2022 Winter Olympics, a gaggle of U.S. Olympians will obtain gold medals at this 12 months’s Summer Olympics.
Nine members of the U.S. group – Nathan Chen, Vincent Zhou, Karen Chen, Alexa Knierim, Brandon Frazier, Madison Chock, Evan Bates, Madison Hubbell and Zachary Donohue – will get gold medals after initially ending second in the determine skating group occasion. The group was elevated to first after a optimistic drug take a look at of Russian Olympic Committee athlete Kamila Valieva earlier than the 2022 Games was revealed.
The U.S. left the 2022 Winter Olympics with out receiving a medal as a result of the uncertainty of the consequence.
In January, officers dominated that the U.S. group ought to be awarded a gold medal as they tossed Valieva’s outcomes. Russian Olympic officers appealed the resolution. On Thursday, the Court of Arbitration upheld the resolution, which now means the U.S. completed first and Japan completed second.
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“This resolution comes simply in time to nonetheless be capable to make the medal allocation for gold and silver attainable throughout the Olympic Games Paris 2024,” the International Olympic Committee mentioned. “We are glad that this chance will be supplied to the athletes and groups who, sadly, needed to look forward to a really very long time for his or her medals as a result of the ongoing authorized case.”
In a press launch, U.S. athletes recommended that Paris could be an amazing place to get their gold medals.
“We [the team] would like to have a real Olympic medal ceremony. So, for us, that might be a medal ceremony at the Paris Games this summer time,” Chock mentioned. “That could be the dream situation — to have the ability to stand atop a podium at an Olympic occasion and be there with our households. To have fun and be surrounded by the Olympic spirit and the Olympic motion could be our dream situation.”
The Court of Arbitration nonetheless has to determine whether or not Canada ought to be awarded a bronze medal as a result of the dismissal of outcomes.
