Figure skater Nathan Chen will be returning to the United States from the Beijing Olympics with some unique souvenirs. Among them will be a gold medal, two stuffed astronaut pandas and … an Olympic torch?
Missing from Chen’s carry-on will be the silver medal the Salt Lake City nativeThe hardware for that competition, one of the first of these Winter Games, is being withheld while the International Olympic Committee deals with the doping scandal swirling around 15-year-old Kamila Valieva. Valieva helped Russia claim the gold medal in the team event, but a day later she was discovered to have tested positive for a banned heart medication at an event in December.
Valieva, the first woman to land a quadruple jump in Olympic history, entered Thursday’s free skate in first place. But in a performance indicative of the kind of stress she has been under the past week, she struggled to land any of her jumps and finished fourth overall. Bach said the torches had been given to the United States Olympic and Paralympic Committee office for athletes to pick up if they chose.
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