Now on display at the U.S. Olympic and Paralympic Museum are nine empty boxes that should be holding medals won 500 days ago by the U.S. figure skating team.
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. — U.S. ice dancers Evan Bates and Madison Chock remember the empty feeling as they trod back to their rooms in Beijing, not long after being told that the ceremony to present their Olympic medals had been called off.
Before going to sleep, one final blow: On their beds sat empty black-and-gold boxes, with notes inside signed from IOC President Thomas Bach. “An Olympic medal is forever,” the note began. The boxes were supposed
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