Japan lastly receives medals two years after crew occasion at Beijing Olympics

Paris –
Kaori Sakamoto didn’t understand how sophisticated it was going to be for Japan to obtain its medals from the crew determine skating occasion on the 2022 Beijing Olympics and located herself questioning “why” because the doping scandal surrounding Russian skater Kamila Valieva meandered via the authorized system.

As Sakamoto sat along with her medal lastly safe round her neck precisely 2½ years after that competitors, the lengthy wait and the uncertainty merely melted away into pleasure.

The Japanese determine skating crew lastly acquired its medals throughout a particular victory ceremony held on the Paris Games on a sun-kissed day within the French capital on Wednesday. The wait ended for the United States crew as effectively, with the Americans receiving their long-awaited gold medals.