When Recapping the Beijing Games: From doping to COVID to historic Black Olympians | USA TODAY

 /how-to-open-2-different-eggs-at-the-same-time-in-pet-simulator-1-596940  The books they were well pretty weird to be honest m tom shad let's recap the biggest storylines of the  games starting with what else the was without a doubt the story of these games figure skating star being suspended for a positive drug test then being cleared to compete facing massive scrutiny and crumbling under the pressure to finish fourth it's a tragic story all around it's not quite done valley of his case is still being sorted out her entourage is still being investigated for team USA perhaps the biggest stories and surprises were in the  had an uncharacteristically brutal stretch not winning a medal in any of her six events and actually not finishing three of them in snowboarding meanwhile  got her gold the men failed to win an individual medal for the first time ever  white came close but placed fourth in his last trip to the games for all the last there were also plenty of historic firsts on team USA speed skater   became Recapping the Beijing Games: From doping to COVID to historic Black Olympians | USA  first black the biggest stories and surprises were in the  had an uncharacteristically brutal stretch not winning a medal in any of her six events and actually not finishing three of them in snowboarding meanwhile  got her gold the men failed to win an individual  to win gold in an individual event at the winter games while picked up two medals silver and a bronze to become the most decorated black woman in  history  figure skater timothy  also made history as the first openly non-binary athlete to compete at the winter games and no games recap would be complete without talking about Covid 19.  were even weirder than the summer games in  if you can believe it there were daily throat swabs fenced in hotels sparse crowds of venues and for a handful of athletes heartbreak figure skater  is among the athletes who were unable to compete after testing positive for covid while in  and wasn't able to serve as one of  flag bearers at the opening ceremony because she was in isolation all told though these games will probably be remembered as a solid showing for team USA the  finished 5th in the metal table with 25 medals including 8 golds now it's on to  which will host the next winter games 1447 days from now hey thanks for watching if you like this video check out these other videos from USA today to stay up to date with all the latest afterwards saw how she was received by her closest entourage with such a what appeared to be a tremendous coldness you you you it was chilling  to see this rather than giving her comfort rather than  try  help her all of this you know does not give me much confidence in this closest entourage of  neither with regard to what happened in the past nor  as far as it concerns the future yeah we can only hope for her to see that this is addressed in in in the right way and that there is not a traumatic experience  such a for such  young woman

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