sort of thing does not take centre stage and it would be for sporting prowess and the worlds great athletes in these winter events that will inspire this nation and people all around the world. one high profile world leader who did attend the opening ceremony was russian president vladimir putin, who also held talks with president xi. the two countries issued a joint statement, describing the talks as very warm and outlining several new policy agreements. both nations also warned against what they called nato s cold war ideology . the meeting was xi s first in person chat with any world leader in nearly two years. the two men have met 37 times since taking power, more than any other heads of state. vladimir putin told xi jinping that the two countries had established an unprecedented relationship. they have a history of trade deals worth hundreds of millions of dollars. russia says it s prepared to supply
kind of weird. yeah, absolutely. whatever it is, it could be a bombshell. this is one of the biggest winter events. a medal ceremony that has come to a screeching halt with basically no information given by the international olympic committee yet other than it is some sort of legal issue and could affect a medalist, which, as you can imagine, leaves a whole lot to the imagination. let s just recap what we know for sure. the roc won gold and the united states won silver and japan won bronze. if you re wondering what is the roc again, the russian olympic committee which is what russian athletes including russian figure skaters compete under after russia was banned as punishment for a state-involved doping scandal. but, again, at this point the ioc hasn t said who is involved and what is going on right now. nothing about this latest legal issue that s halted the ceremony, but if one of the medalists if the roc or team usa or japan were to lose a medal,
disqualified valiyeva and her consistent greatness. if she wasn t coming in top three, katy, this wouldn t be an issue but her skating is so far ahead of the pack, it has put this glaring asterisk over one of the biggest, most beautiful of all winter events we heard from scott hamilton say what so many in the skating community are feeling right now. take a listen. i ve never seen anything like this. i think a positive drug test, you don t compete. and the fact this is going on and everybody else has to sacrifice their olympic moments for an athlete that came in testing positive seems ludicrous to me and is massively unfair. reporter: we heard from adam rippon describing how many are told not to even take multivitamins or cold medicine to test as clean as possible, this coming from a country not even allowed to compete under
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