The medal ceremony for the Beijing determine skating crew occasion has been postponed indefinitely
Worldwide Olympic Committee (IOC) president Thomas Bach has supplied US determine skaters torches as a present whereas they await their medals from the crew occasion in Beijing, in keeping with experiences.
Bach made the gesture when he spoke with the US crew in a gathering lasting round two hours on Wednesday, the AP reported, citing nameless sources.
The ‘holdover reward’ can be torches used through the Olympic flame relay, which the AP claimed have already been given to US crew employees to current to the skaters.
The US Olympic and Paralympic Committee (USOPC) confirmed that discussions had taken place however didn’t expose the main points, stating that the “content material of that dialogue ought to stay between them.”
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Anti-Russian agenda comes earlier than info in Western media’s Valieva frenzy
The medal ceremony for the determine skating crew occasion – which was gained by the Russian Olympic Committee (ROC) and noticed the US declare silver forward of Japan in third – was postponed after a optimistic doping check was reported for Russian skater Kamila Valieva in a pattern taken in December.
Earlier this week, a Court docket of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) panel cleared the 15-year-old to compete within the girls’s particular person occasion in Beijing, the place she leads after the quick program and can intention to seal gold on Thursday.
The IOC has already stated no flower or medal ceremony will probably be held after that occasion because the case is ongoing.
Russian officers have maintained Valieva’s innocence after she examined optimistic for traces of the banned coronary heart drug trimetazidine.
At her case listening to it was reportedly prompt that the drug might have entered her system by way of contamination through coronary heart treatment her grandfather was taking.
The ROC famous that Valieva repeatedly handed doping assessments earlier than and after the optimistic consequence – together with in Beijing.
There has additionally been conflicting info as to why the consequence from the pattern, which was taken on December 25 on the Russian championships and despatched for evaluation at a laboratory in Stockholm accredited by the World Anti-Doping Company (WADA), took greater than six weeks to be reported – arriving solely after Valieva had helped the ROC crew to gold.
Talking on Wednesday, IOC spokesman Mark Adams cautioned towards among the hypothesis which has taken maintain within the media surrounding the case.
