Still no ruling on Russia's controversial figure skating medal from Beijing Olympics. Why? | Opinion

WASHINGTON — It has now been more than 10 weeks since the 2022 Beijing Olympics ended, a Winter Games that will forever be known for the Russian doping scandal that consumed them and the figure skating team medal ceremony that never was. 

All those days have gone by, yet the members of the silver-medal-winning U.S. figure skating team, as well as their competitors from Japan, Canada and Russia, are no closer to a resolution about who gets what medal than they were the day they left China more than two months ago.

Why? Because the journey to justice in the labyrinth of international drug testing, a trek that will eventually determine once and for all if Russian figure skater Kamila Valieva will be punished and if she will take her gold-medal-winning teammates down with her, begins in Russia, of all places.