Figure skating team event medals unlikely to be awarded before conclusion of Beijing Winter Olympics
It would be an unprecedented conundrum for the International Olympic Committee (IOC) if the medal ceremony wasn’t to take place before the end of the 2022 Winter Olympics.
Unknown legal issue delays figure skating team awards ceremony
Medals plaza event on ice while Russian Olympic Committee team, United States and Japan wait
Tokyo 2020 medal winners can now briefly go mask-less on the podium
The IOC decides to relax the rule so that athletes could “at least have a picture to remember their amazing performances”.
First Paralympic Gold Goes to Slovakia
(ATR) Also: First athletics medal event disputed; Brazil wins its first medals; world records already set on day one.
FIFA Inspects Brazil; IOC Mediates in Panama; Gold Medal Swap at Paralympics
(ATR) FIFA secretary general wraps up latest World Cup inspection tour ... IOC to mediate dispute within Panama NOC ... LOCOG arranges medal ceremony re-do after wrong results in women's discus ... More inside this Olympic Newsdesk ...
