I just watched an interview with Erik Kynard from U.S.A., who initially was awarded the silver medal in high jump at the 2012 London Games. The Russian winner was disqualified years later due to doping, and Erik was awarded the gold recently- though he hasn’t seen it yet. They’re planning an award ceremony for later this year - so ten years! Hopefully, the current situation will be resolved much sooner.
Team USA files Appeal to receive medal prior to Closing Ceremony
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Crap....I surely hope not.
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CAS can kiss my rhyming word. This was mishandled from the start and this is just the poisoned cherry on an excrement cake.
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The US team met with Thomas Bach to express their disappointment:
“I think it’s going to take a while to get over this,” Bates said, his voice starting to crack. “And when we do get our medals, I’m not sure that will sufficiently cure the hurt that’s been caused to all the clean athletes who didn’t get their medal moment.”
“I think it’s going to take a while to get over this,” Bates said, his voice starting to crack. “And when we do get our medals, I’m not sure that will sufficiently cure the hurt that’s been caused to all the clean athletes who didn’t get their medal moment.”
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10 YEARS. My god, that’s awful.
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The medals 
of course are of higher priority by far, but as a smaller keepsake, I hope that team event medalists eventually will receive also the accompanying flower bouquets 
, which are beautifully crocheted.
Madi Hubbell loves hers (from individual dance medal ceremony), and posted five photos:
And ... U.S. sibling pair Vivian and Ron Joseph also were involved in the medal changes from 1964 Olympics, where they placed fourth. Their story of receiving their bronze medals (the physical medals) in 1966 -- but not receiving public recognition for their medals until almost fifty years later -- is quite a complicated saga, chronicled at length by Amy Rosewater in Skating magazine in 2015.
In 1966, the Germans who placed second at Innsbruck Olympics were disqualified, and the Josephs were awarded the bronze medals (returned by the Canadians) by the USOC president in a "small presentation" during the USFS Executive Board meeting in October in their hometown of Chicago. "Several area skating officials attended the event. There was virtually no media coverage."
"While fact checking a story in 2013, Amy Rosewater stumbled on a records discrepancy that prompted her to launch an investigation into the 1964 Olympic pairs results. After her story ran in The New York Times, the IOC took action to clarify the results."
The Josephs finally were honored at 2015 U.S. Nationals in Greensboro.
I certainly understand that for team event skaters, no festivities in future could match a full-fledged medal ceremony on site during the Beijing Games themselves.
But as Rosewater noted in 2015, we're now in a whole different media age compared to 1966, when the Josephs received their physical medals.
Whenever the U.S. team event skaters eventually receive their 2022 OWG medals, I expect that USFS (and/or USOPC) will make as much fanfare as possible.
I hope that when the time comes, the Japanese team event skaters also will be celebrated by their feds.
BTW, "Wilkes and Revell, now the silver medalists, received their Olympic medals [returned by the Germans] during a presentation at the 1967 Canadian Championships."
"Canadian Revell, who died in 1981, guarded his silver medal so closely that he was buried with it, according to his longtime partner Wilkes."
of course are of higher priority by far, but as a smaller keepsake, I hope that team event medalists eventually will receive also the accompanying flower bouquets , which are beautifully crocheted.Madi Hubbell loves hers (from individual dance medal ceremony), and posted five photos:
And ... U.S. sibling pair Vivian and Ron Joseph also were involved in the medal changes from 1964 Olympics, where they placed fourth. Their story of receiving their bronze medals (the physical medals) in 1966 -- but not receiving public recognition for their medals until almost fifty years later -- is quite a complicated saga, chronicled at length by Amy Rosewater in Skating magazine in 2015.
In 1966, the Germans who placed second at Innsbruck Olympics were disqualified, and the Josephs were awarded the bronze medals (returned by the Canadians) by the USOC president in a "small presentation" during the USFS Executive Board meeting in October in their hometown of Chicago. "Several area skating officials attended the event. There was virtually no media coverage."
"While fact checking a story in 2013, Amy Rosewater stumbled on a records discrepancy that prompted her to launch an investigation into the 1964 Olympic pairs results. After her story ran in The New York Times, the IOC took action to clarify the results."
The Josephs finally were honored at 2015 U.S. Nationals in Greensboro.
50 years later: Vivian and Ron Joseph hear the cheers again as their Olympic medal saga is resolved
by Amy Rosewater
by Amy Rosewater
I certainly understand that for team event skaters, no festivities in future could match a full-fledged medal ceremony on site during the Beijing Games themselves.
But as Rosewater noted in 2015, we're now in a whole different media age compared to 1966, when the Josephs received their physical medals.
Whenever the U.S. team event skaters eventually receive their 2022 OWG medals, I expect that USFS (and/or USOPC) will make as much fanfare as possible.
I hope that when the time comes, the Japanese team event skaters also will be celebrated by their feds.
BTW, "Wilkes and Revell, now the silver medalists, received their Olympic medals [returned by the Germans] during a presentation at the 1967 Canadian Championships."
"Canadian Revell, who died in 1981, guarded his silver medal so closely that he was buried with it, according to his longtime partner Wilkes."
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Hubbell knits? Sweet!
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Also I hope it doesn't take half a decade....
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I get the joke but AARP can be joined at any age. I missed out on a ton of discounts in my life not belonging.
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just in case people are not aware, back then, olympians needed to retain an amateur status. If athletes accepted "pro" work, then they could no longer compete with the amateurs. On basis of that, sometimes, there were DQs and appeals etc...
Just shows that whatever the rules are, they must be followed by everyone. Once a rule is broken, it's broken...
Glad that athletes are no longer subjected to these amateur status rules (or are they in some way or another??) but they are still subjected to anti-doping rules.
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