No flowers or podiums, no awards or smiles, but only an asteric, as a reminder that the result "is provisional and awaiting further investigations".
This is the most probable outcome of the women's individual figure skating test at the Beijing Olympics, dominated by the positive doping case of the absolute favorite, the Russian Kamila Valieva.
In the aftermath of the short program, which dominated, the 15-year-old remains in the crosshairs for the decision of the Arbitral Tribunal for Sport (TAS) to allow her to participate in the trial, while the IOC tries to anesthetize the growing controversy pending the final decision on the case , which will only happen at archived Games.
Olympic Committee spokesman Mark Adams said that if Valieva finishes in the top three, the results of women's figure skating will be 'provisional'.
"There will be an asterisk next to it, because we have to wait for further investigation," Adams said.
Valieva leads the ranking in front of a compatriot of the Roc, the world champion Anna Shcherbakova, the Japanese Kaori Sakamoto, and another Russian, Alexandra Trusova.
In tomorrow's free program, everything suggests that, unless a sudden psychophysical breakdown after a terrible week, Valieva will win gold, leaving the whole test sub judice.
The screens and the 'inventions' of the Olympic Committee are certainly not enough either to protect the very young champion - who, like yesterday, should not speak to the media tomorrow - or to dampen the controversy.
Adams replied to sprinter Usae Sha'Carri Richardson (out of the Tokyo 2020 Games for positivity to cannabis), that she said she saw a double standard in handling her case and that of Valieva.
"The only difference is that I'm black," she tweeted.
"Each case is different - said Adams - and there is no similarity between them".
But some of the other competitors also complained, like the American Alysa Liu: "I don't know all the details of the case, but I don't think it fair that a positive one competes against clean athletes."