In a moment nine years overdue, high jumper Chaunté Lowe had an Olympic medal draped around her neck and received a standing ovation.
It didn’t happen at an Olympic Stadium, but at the recent Team USA Awards, which aired on NBC on Saturday night.
Lowe, a four-time Olympian and mother of three, earned her first Olympic medal in 2008 but did not receive it until last month.
Her original sixth-place result from the Beijing Games was upgraded due to doping from the original third-, fourth- and fifth-place finishers.
The athletes were retroactively disqualified following retests of their doping samples last year.