On a balmy Paris evening in front of 13,000 fans, athletes from the US and Japan shed a tear as they received their Olympic medals against the stunning backdrop of the Eiffel Tower on the other side of the Seine.
The ceremony at the temporary venue in the Trocadéro gardens was not to honour competitors who had excelled at this year’s Olympics, but for a handful of figure skaters from the 2022 Beijing Winter Games who had waited two-and-a-half years for their moment in the sun.
Olympic officials hope the launch of a new medal event will prove a fitting forum for athletes beaten by competitors who were later revealed to have been doping.
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