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It's been a year since the biggest debacle at the Beijing Winter Olympics

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Tuesday marks a year since a fiasco at the Winter Olympics involving the team figure skating competition. Russia won but it was marred² by a positive doping test. Medals still haven't been awarded.

LEILA FADEL, HOST:

It's a not-so-happy Olympic anniversary today. A year ago, Russia won the team figure skating event at the Beijing Winter Games, powered by teenage phenom Kamila Valieva. But her subsequent positive drug test marred the games and left the team results in limbo³. Valieva's case remains⁴ unresolved. And the Olympic athletes, including second place finishers from the U.S. team, still don't have their medals. NPR's Tom Goldman reports.

TOM GOLDMAN, BYLINE⁵: On the first day of the Olympic team event last February, Zach Donohue and his U.S. ice dance partner Madison Hubbell did their part.

(SOUNDBITE OF SONG, "RHYTHM NATION")

JANET JACKSON: (Singing) Say, we are a part of the rhythm nation.

GOLDMAN: Their personal best score helped stake the U.S. to an early lead. But on the final day of competition a year ago today, 15-year-old Kamila Valieva made history with two quadruple jumps and led the Russians to victory just ahead of the U.S. Donohue remembers, the next day, team members were getting ready to head to the ceremony to claim their silver medals.

ZACH DONOHUE: We were dressed in our ceremony gear in a room, waiting to take a bus to the venue⁶. And we're told, so this is canceled. And we're all like, (laughter) yeah, right. Funny joke. It's cool. Let's go.

GOLDMAN: A team official told them, no joke. There's a doping issue. We can't say more.

DONOHUE: So for all of us, the first step was kind of incredulous wonderment.

GOLDMAN: More emotion followed, like frustration⁷ and disappointment, as information emerged. Valieva tested positive for a banned drug from a sample taken more than a month before the Beijing Games. Her case should have been resolved, but wasn't, by the time the Olympics started. And then, Donohue says, as the months rolled by, still without resolution...

DONOHUE: Outrage⁸ and just disbelief that this is still the situation.

GOLDMAN: Donohue says the delay goes beyond the still unclaimed medals and their potential to provide the athletes with bonuses and sponsorship opportunities.

DONOHUE: This decision being postponed⁹ for so long really detracts from the integrity of the Olympic image and the Olympic values. And I think it takes a lot away from the integrity that the majority of athletes choose.

TRAVIS TYGART: Here we now are throwing salt on those wounds.

GOLDMAN: The salt in the wounds, says U.S. Anti-Doping Agency CEO Travis Tygart, was last month's decision by the Russian Anti-Doping Agency to clear Valieva of wrongdoing. Tygart says the decision lacked transparency and independence and was done by an organization declared, in 2015, non-compliant.

TYGART: For their involvement as an instrument of the state, running an intentional¹⁰, state-sponsored doping program where they knowingly gave and assisted athletes from Russia to use drugs and then knowingly sent them to international competition.

GOLDMAN: The World Anti-Doping Agency says it's likely to appeal last month's Valieva decision. WADA, as it's known, is not beyond blame in this case, nor is figure skating's international governing body. Both, Tygart says, could have taken the case out of Russian hands and pushed to get it resolved months ago. Instead, anti-doping efforts in Olympic sport have taken another credibility hit. And athletes from the U.S., third place Japan and, yes, Russia wait and wonder about their medals. Although, not always, says Zach Donohue. Along with teammates, he's received several email updates on the case.

DONOHUE: I have to be honest, there were multiple times that I would look at that email and go, oh, my God. I forgot that I'm waiting on a medal. It's been so long that it's not even relevant.

GOLDMAN: Donohue says it will be once Valieva's guilt¹¹ or innocence¹² finally is decided¹³, and when all the athletes gather to accept whatever medals resolution brings. Donohue says he's heard a lot of the waiting athletes want their stolen Olympic moment truly Olympic this time, meaning a possible award ceremony at next year's Summer Games in Paris - assuming the case is closed by then.

Tom Goldman, NPR News.

1 transcript   

n.抄本，誊本，副本，肄业证书

参考例句：

• A transcript of the tapes was presented as evidence in court.一份录音带的文字本作为证据被呈交法庭。
• They wouldn't let me have a transcript of the interview.他们拒绝给我一份采访的文字整理稿。

2 marred   

adj. 被损毁, 污损的

参考例句：

• The game was marred by the behaviour of drunken fans. 喝醉了的球迷行为不轨，把比赛给搅了。
• Bad diction marred the effectiveness of his speech. 措词不当影响了他演说的效果。

3 limbo   

n.地狱的边缘；监狱

参考例句：

• His life seemed stuck in limbo and he could not go forward and he could not go back.他的生活好像陷入了不知所措的境地，进退两难。
• I didn't know whether my family was alive or dead.I felt as if I was in limbo.我不知道家人是生是死，感觉自己茫然无措。

4 remains   

n.剩余物，残留物；遗体，遗迹

参考例句：

• He ate the remains of food hungrily.他狼吞虎咽地吃剩余的食物。
• The remains of the meal were fed to the dog.残羹剩饭喂狗了。

5 byline   

n.署名；v.署名

参考例句：

• His byline was absent as well.他的署名也不见了。
• We wish to thank the author of this article which carries no byline.我们要感谢这篇文章的那位没有署名的作者。

6 venue   

n.犯罪地点，审判地，管辖地，发生地点，集合地点

参考例句：

• The hall provided a venue for weddings and other functions.大厅给婚礼和其他社会活动提供了场所。
• The chosen venue caused great controversy among the people.人们就审判地点的问题产生了极大的争议。

7 frustration   

n.挫折，失败，失效，落空

参考例句：

• He had to fight back tears of frustration.他不得不强忍住失意的泪水。
• He beat his hands on the steering wheel in frustration.他沮丧地用手打了几下方向盘。

8 outrage   

n.暴行，侮辱，愤怒；vt.凌辱，激怒

参考例句：

• When he heard the news he reacted with a sense of outrage.他得悉此事时义愤填膺。
• We should never forget the outrage committed by the Japanese invaders.我们永远都不应该忘记日本侵略者犯下的暴行。

9 postponed   

vt.& vi.延期，缓办，（使）延迟vt.把…放在次要地位；[语]把…放在后面（或句尾）vi.（疟疾等）延缓发作（或复发）

参考例句：

• The trial was postponed indefinitely. 审讯无限期延迟。
• The game has already been postponed three times. 这场比赛已经三度延期了。

10 intentional   

adj.故意的，有意（识）的

参考例句：

• Let me assure you that it was not intentional.我向你保证那不是故意的。
• His insult was intentional.他的侮辱是有意的。

11 guilt   

n.犯罪；内疚；过失，罪责

参考例句：

• She tried to cover up her guilt by lying.她企图用谎言掩饰自己的罪行。
• Don't lay a guilt trip on your child about schoolwork.别因为功课责备孩子而使他觉得很内疚。

12 innocence   

n.无罪；天真；无害

参考例句：

• There was a touching air of innocence about the boy.这个男孩有一种令人感动的天真神情。
• The accused man proved his innocence of the crime.被告人经证实无罪。

13 decided   

adj.决定了的，坚决的；明显的，明确的

参考例句：

• This gave them a decided advantage over their opponents.这使他们比对手具有明显的优势。
• There is a decided difference between British and Chinese way of greeting.英国人和中国人打招呼的方式有很明显的区别。