Gold for Team USA! The nine members of the U.S. team – Nathan Chen, Vincent Zhou, Karen Chen, Alexa Knierim, Brandon Frazier, Madison Chock, Evan Bates, Madison Hubbell and Zachary Donohue – have been named the gold medalists for the figure skating team event from the Olympic Winter Games Beijing 2022.
Team USA has finally been awarded the gold medal in the figure skating team event from the 2022 Winter Olympic Games! The long-awaited medal ceremony took place Aug. 7 at the 2024 Olympic Games in Paris, France.
Background
February 7, 2022
At the 2022 Beijing Olympic Games, the United States finished second behind the Russian Olympic Committee in the figure skating team event with 65 points. The silver marked the best-ever result in the team event for the stars and stripes.
But in an unprecedented turn of events, the medal ceremony was postponed due to the revelation that ROC athlete Kamila Valieva tested positive for a banned substance. The International Olympic Committee then ruled no medals would be presented for the team event during the Games due to the ongoing investigation.
This is the first time in Olympic history athletes have not been awarded their medals on-site, meaning these athletes missed their opportunity to be recognized on the Olympic podium.
February 2, 2023
In the lead up to the one-year anniversary of the scheduled medal ceremony, U.S. Figure Skating officially launched its More Than Medals campaign to push for a resolution and to champion clean sport.
June 23, 2023
June 22, 2023 marked 500 days since the scheduled medal ceremony for the figure skating team event with no resolution in sight. The next day, the U.S. Olympic & Paralympic Museum in Colorado Springs, Colorado, opened a “More Than Medals” exhibit featuring all nine empty Olympic medal boxes, serving as a reminder that the nine U.S. athletes had yet to receive their medals.
January 30, 2024
Team USA was named the winner of the team event after a nearly 300-day process involving proceedings around the positive drug test of ROC athlete Kamila Valieva. The International Skating Union announced its reorder of the medals, based on the Court of Arbitration for Sport's decision to disqualify Valieva's competitive results dating back to Dec. 25, 2021.
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July 25, 2024
The Court of Arbitration for Sport officially dismissed appeals by the Russian Olympic Committee, therefore confirming that the United States would be awarded the gold medal, which is the United States' first gold in the Olympic team event. Team USA will receive their gold medals at the 2024 Olympic Games in Paris, France, on Aug. 7 at 5 p.m. (local Paris time) at Champions Park.
August 7, 2024
The nine U.S. members of the team event were finally awarded their gold medals exactly 2 1/2 years after the end of the team event at the 2022 Olympic Winter Games in Beijing, China. The ceremony took place in Paris, France during the 2024 Olympic Games.
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- U.S. Figure Skaters to Get Olympic Team Event Gold After Kamila Valieva DQ - NBC Sports
- U.S. Figure Skaters Celebrate Gold Medal From Beijing Olympics With Touch of Bittersweetness - AP News
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- U.S. to Receive 2022 Olympic Team Figure Skating Gold Medals After Kamila Valieva Ban - USA Today
- US Olympic Figure Skaters Won in Beijing, 500 Days Later, They Still Don't Have Their Medals - TODAY
- Team USA Figure Skaters Continue to Wait for Olympic Medals - Washington Post
- Olympic Team Figure Skaters are Still Waiting for Medals a Year After Beijing Games. Why? - USA Today
- One Year Later, Still No Medals in Disputed Beijing 2022 Olympic Team Skating Event - NPR
- U.S. Olympic Figure Skating Team Waits for Silver Medal That Could Turn to Gold - NBC
- U.S. Figure Skating 'Frustrated' by Lack of Final Decision in Team Event, Calls for Fair Ruling - People
