SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herzegovina (AP) — British ice dancers Jayne Torvill and Christopher Dean received a warm welcome as they returned to Sarajevo to mark the 40th anniversary of their gold medal-winning Winter Olympic performance. Torvill and Dean are due to skate together Wednesday evening at an event celebrating the legacy of the 1984 Olympics. The anniversary is “such a special occasion,” Torvill said.
i know a lot of folks are anxious to see that happen. thank you. and masking and this new normal will be among the issues i discuss with president biden tomorrow night in our exclusive interview. in beijing, the medal ceremony for the figure skaters who won the team event was postponed after russia took gold and the u.s. won silver. tonight there are reports that delay was due to a positive drug test for a russian skater. with more on that, here is keir simmons. reporter: the russian figure skaters have been an olympic sensation. the ice dancers, the pairs, and 15-year-old phenom kamila valieva. performances that earned the russians gold. but tonight they still don t have their medals. yesterday s ceremony postponed. then reports citing anonymous sources that the delay was caused by a positive drug test from a russian skater. tonight a russian newspaper also citing anonymous sources who say the positive test in december was for a
her. reporter: when you hear about your dad s story what do you think? you must be proud of him, too? oh, yeah. i m so proud of him for that. i feel like a mini him, honestly. reporter: love, dpermgs, and sacrifice. as alysa now prepares to take on the world. kristen dahlgren, nbc news, oakland. can t wait to see her of tonight s primetime coverage of the olympics begins at 8: 00 zblnchs off the ice, they re exs. on the ice, they re partners. the american ice dancers making it to the podium in the winter
different reasons. they are all young athletes. they look even younger in that moment. the gold medalist just looked alone and confused. it was just such a terrible scene, wasn t it? some have described the whole situation as child abuse playing out on the biggest stage in international sport. really painful to see some of those images and then to hear that statement from the russian coach is pretty harsh. let s talk about, though, this now, you know, waiting game for u.s. ice dancers, for example, waiting on the decision about what s going to happen in the team competition. the u.s., obviously, got silver, but they could be elevated to gold depending on the outcome of the investigation into valiyeva. yeah, i mean, a tragedy for valiyeva, of course, but it s a tragedy for everybody else and all the other athletes competing. they want to know they re competing on a level playing field. so often in the past, we have had athletes banned after the event and then eventually the
jan dodds, now olympic medallist in the men and women, but in the mix they were the world champions in they were the world champions in they loss that bronze medal match right at the start of the games, so didn t win a medal there and katie ormerod, a world champion during this olympic cycle, and she failed to make it through to the final of either the medicare or the slope style, but plenty of promise, lots of exciting talent coming through for team gb as well, 17 year old cath della kirsty muir coming fifth, she is want to watch, lewis gibson, a top 10 finish for our ice dancers on their olympic debut, they have big hopes of pushing towards the podium infouryears big hopes of pushing towards the podium in four years time and the four man bob, brad hall and his crew, finishing insects, remember they are self funded, they have not had very much money at all coming through from the uk sport, and they finished in sixth place, that s a good result for them, given that they are up against