...It's nice and all, but couldn't YOU and JOC have pushed for a time and date on which it would be possible for ALL of your medalists to attend? Poor Shoma 😢 He's in Europe right now for an ice show and could have made it, if the medal ceremony was 1 day earlier or 3 days later.
"The group also decided that if not all of them-Bates, Chock, Karen Chen, Nathan Chen, Zachary Donohue, Brandon Frazier, Madison Hubbell, Alexa Knierim, and Vincent Zhou-could make the medal ceremony, they would not come to Paris. “If we’re not all going to be there, then we don’t want to have [the ceremony] yet,” Nathan Chen, who also won gold in the men's event, said of the team’s desire to receive their medals together." Meanwhile Team Japan, JSF and JOC showed zero integrity.
Agreed. USFS and USOPC officials had their athletes' backs every step of the way in the last 2,5 years. USA would have never allowed this to happen to any of their skaters 😒