Team USA figure skaters received chocolate gold medals for the Olympic team tournament
Team USA figure skaters received chocolate gold medals for the team event at the 2022 Olympic Games. Figure skater Alexa Knierim shared a photo of the award on her Instagram page. (the social network is banned in the Russian Federation; it belongs to the Meta corporation, which is recognized as extremist in Russia and is banned).
“A chocolate medal to fill the void while waiting,” Knierim captioned the photo.
On January 30, the team tournament medals were redistributed due to the disqualification and cancellation of the results of Russian Kamila Valieva. The Russian team moved from first to third place, gold went to the USA, silver to Japan.
On January 29, Valieva was disqualified for four years for violating anti-doping rules. The period of suspension is counted from the moment the sample is taken – December 25, 2021. The fact that traces of the banned drug trimetazidine were found in it became known after the end of the team tournament at the Beijing Games.
Source: Lenta
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