"Postponed," postponed, reports the Olympic Games information system under the Victory Ceremonies tab for the ceremony, which was scheduled to take place in front of Beijing's "Bird's Nest" on Tuesday.
There should have been gold medals for the athletes of the Russian Olympic Committee, led by the outstanding Kamila Valiyeva, silver for the United States, bronze for the Japanese after their performances in the figure skating team competition.
But when and for whom are there medals?
The award ceremony was canceled on Tuesday and has not been made up for so far.
Christopher Becker
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When asked by a reporter from industry portal Inside the Games, Mark Adams, the spokesman for the International Olympic Committee, said at the IOC's daily press briefing on Wednesday morning that he could say little about the case due to "a sudden matter and legal implications".
"Inside The Games" reported that the background was a doping sample taken by a Russian athlete before the games.
Accordingly, the International Skating Union spoke of "legal entanglements" that required consultation with the IOC.
There was no confirmation until the evening in Beijing.
The Russian news agency TASS quoted the spokeswoman for the Russian Skating Association Olga Yermolina, who said the association was waiting for "official information".
The American Figure Skating Association did not respond to a request from the FAZ.
Russian athletes will compete at the Beijing Games as athletes from the Russian Olympic Committee.
The background to this is the arbitral award by the International Court of Arbitration for Sport, which halved the punishment imposed by the World Anti-Doping Agency WADA for concealing and destroying evidence of state-organized doping fraud to two years.