![]() ![]() skater who finished second in the Olympic team event, are now sitting under glass as part of an exhibit at the U.S. ![]() The nine empty boxes, one belonging to each U.S. The boxes were supposed to be the perfect spot for the skaters to place the medals they never received.įive-hundred days later, the medals remain somewhere in storage because of yet another sordid and as-yet-unresolved doping case to come out of Russia. “An Olympic medal is forever,” the note began. ice dancers Evan Bates and Madison Chock remember the empty feeling as they trod back to their rooms in Beijing, not long after being told that the ceremony to present their Olympic medals had been called off.īefore going to sleep, one final blow: On their beds sat empty black-and-gold boxes, with notes inside signed from IOC President Thomas Bach.
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