Hoda hosted Friday's show with Craig Melvin, Al Roker and Carson Daly as Savannah Guthrie took a day off from the studio
Speaking on the show for aexclusive interview, the skaters revealed how they still have not been awarded their medals from the games. The US team won silver for figure skating at the Beijing Olympics, but their medal ceremony was cancelled after news broke that Kamila Valieva, one of the Russian figure skaters who'd led their team to gold, had tested positive for performance enhancing drugs two months before the competition.
Vincent Zhou, Alexa Knierim and Brendon Frazier – three of the nine US figure skating team who are still missing their medals – appeared on Today on June 23 to discuss the situation, revealing it still wasn't sure whether they'd be awarded silver or gold.
As NBC's resident figure skating expert and former Olympic Gold medal winner Tara Lipinski said in an earlier interview during the segment: "These athletes sacrifice so much of their lives for this one moment, and watching these athletes not get that moment is upsetting."Savannah had been reporting on the Winter Olympics alongside Hoda,
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