American ice dancers Madison Chock and Evan Bates are still without the Olympic medal they earned at the Beijing Games. The medal from the team event has been tied up thanks to a slow-moving Russian doping investigation which has now been appealed to the Court of Arbitration for Sports.
FILE - Madison Chock and Evan Bates, of the United States, perform their routine in the ice dance competition during the figure skating at the 2022 Winter Olympics, Monday, Feb. 14, 2022, in Beijing. Chock and Bates are still without the Olympic medal they earned at the Beijing Games. So with that still in limbo, Chock and Bates are ready to embark on another season with Skate America this weekend in Texas.
“It’s really frustrating,” Bates said. “I think the time that has passed since Beijing — what are we, 20 months now? — I think that part of it is the most disappointing. We’re the only ones from that team that are still competing. It just represents the brief span of an Olympic athlete’s career, and to have this amount of delay in having our Olympic achievement recognized is frustrating.”
“It would be hard to walk away knowing that, despite having achieved the hard part of winning an Olympic medal, we didn’t have the moment on the podium,” Bates said. “You see so many montages, whether it’s Michael Phelps or whoever it is having that emotional moment. To me, that’s baked into the Olympic dream. That’s the culmination. It’s not a delayed gratification thing where you have your Olympic triumph and then you have your moment on the podium. We talked about still wanting that.
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