IOC president Thomas Bach has reportedly presented to present U.S. determine skaters Olympic torches as a holdover reward whilst they anticipate a last verdict at the determine skating crew match standings.
The AP reported the be offering by means of Bach to the U.S. Olympians, bringing up “two other folks aware of the occasions.” The torches — that have been used throughout the pre-Video games torch relay — have already been given to crew body of workers to be offered to the athletes, the AP file provides.
The USA crew, headlined by means of males’s singles champion Nathan Chen, gained the silver medal within the crew match. However the medals haven’t begun to be offered as a result of a doping case involving the Russian crew — who gained gold.
The uncertainty surrounds 15-year-old Russian skater Kamila Valieva, whose drug check on the Russian nationwide pageant in December returned a favorable consequence for a banned middle medicine on Feb. 8 — the day the crew match medals had been intended to be awarded. Valieva used to be deemed eligible to compete within the girls’s singles match by means of the court docket of arbitration of recreation whilst her case is still investigated. Valieva leads the ladies’s pageant after the fast program and the IOC says it gained’t award any medals on podiums that includes the Russian till an investigation is finished.
Valieva will compete within the loose skate Thursday.
