​Update: ​Goucher wrote this week about what her experience has been like since Osaka, and how she's processed her feelings about the medal. It's a recommended read. Our original article appears below.

After breaking the American record in a time that would have medaled at every other Olympics ever and only netted her sixth in the 10K in Rio, Molly Huddle took the long view. Speaking to reporters after the race, Huddle said, "These places might be a bit mobile. Who knows? That's a very, very fast time." What she was opaquely referring to is that modern drug testing is not particularly good at catching dopers at track meets, but it is decent at catching them a few years later. 

And that "mobility" really does take years. Adam Nelson finished second at the 2004 Olympics in the shot put; the winner's stored sample tested positive and Nelson received his gold in an airport food court in 2013. Nigeria finished second in the 2000 men's 4x400, and it was fully confirmed by 2008 that the American men who won had doped. The Nigerians didn't get their medals until 2012. Asbel Kiprop got his rightful 2008 1500m gold in 2011. Habiba Ghribi finished second in the women's steeple in 2012, and got her gold in 2016. There are many more examples.

That brings us to Shalane Flanagan, who finished third in the Olympic 10K in August 2008. The second-place finisher, Elvan Abeylegesse of Turkey, tested positive in 2015, but it took until last week for the sanctions to come down, and until this week for the IAAF to officially change the results.

I am officially an Olympic Silver medalist (not Bronze) in the 10,000meters. This is a result of the positive... https://t.co/HFsHirjXQf

— Shalane Flanagan (@ShalaneFlanagan) April 6, 2017

Flanagan will receive her silver medal now that the IAAF tweaked the results, but the Facebook statement she links to in that tweet actually says that the IAAF told her the results were updated, and that she should contact the IOC and the USOC. (With the results updated, the IOC will eventually award Flanagan silver.) The same athlete who beat Flanagan for second in the 2008 Olympic 10K also beat Kara Goucher for second in the 2007 world championships 10K.

Goucher will be upgraded to silver, but as the Denver Post points out, she lost out on $100,000 in prize money and contract bonuses by finishing third instead of second in that race. No word from the IAAF on whether they'll be paying out their $40K chunk of that as well.