Olympics: Japan figure skaters awarded Beijing team silver in Paris

Japan's figure skating team from the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics belatedly received silver medals at the Paris Games on Wednesday, after the ceremony had been postponed for over two years following a doping controversy surrounding Russian skater Kamila Valieva.Valieva, then 15, helped the Russian Olympic Committee win gold but it was revealed a day after the event that she had failed a pre-Olympics doping test.The International Skating Union this January declared the United States, originally the runner-up, the gold medalist with Japan moved into the silver position.During the ceremony at …READ FULL ARTICLE