Chen and his US teammates neglected the chance to assemble their medals from the determine skating staff tournament on Tuesday because of an ongoing doping scandal involving Russian athlete Kamila Valieva.
“The medal rite is indubitably an overly particular a part of the Olympics, and for the ones that are meant to get a medal, I really hope that they are able to,” Chen instructed CNN’s Coy Twine.
“No matter occurs, occurs. However I do hope that we will be able to have this chance to percentage that as a staff.”
The ROC may well be stripped of its gold medal following the World Olympic Committee’s (IOC) announcement Friday that it is going to be taking its case towards Valieva and the ROC to the Courtroom of Arbitration for Recreation (CAS).
The ROC stated that Valieva had “many times handed doping exams” whilst already in Beijing and that it’s taking measures to stay Valieva’s “truthfully gained” gold.
A call is wanted ahead of Valieva’s subsequent tournament — the ladies’s singles brief program — on Tuesday, through which she is favourite to win gold.
The determine skating staff festival on the Olympics options 4 disciplines — males’s and girls’s singles, ice dance, and pairs — carried out throughout a brief program and a unfastened skate.
Issues are awarded in line with the place a rustic ranks in every of the 8 parts, with the highest 5 groups from the quick program advancing to the unfastened skate. The winner is the staff with essentially the most issues on the finish of the contest.
‘A large number of issues are nonetheless in my thoughts at the moment’
Addressing the case, Chen stated that he believes “issues will grow to be extra transparent” sooner or later.
“There is indisputably numerous variables which might be entering play, however on the finish of the day, all I will in reality regulate is how a lot I will do,” Chen stated.
“Indisputably, as athletes, you need with the intention to have as honest a taking part in box as imaginable.
“A large number of issues are nonetheless in my thoughts at the moment and I do not in truth know the main points of the whole lot happening, so I will’t come to a transparent conclusion. However as issues spread, issues will grow to be extra transparent.”
Having gained silver together with his staff on Monday, Chen added a shocking gold medal within the particular person tournament on Thursday.
The 22-year-old took his first Olympic identify in masterful style, surroundings a brand new brief program global file on Tuesday ahead of sealing victory with any other very good appearing within the lengthy program.
In doing so, he changed into the primary American since Evan Lysacek in 2010 to win a males’s determine skating gold medal.
