As I recall, Irina threw her medal in the trash.
That wasn't in 2002---that was when she won bronze, in 2006, behind Arakawa and Cohen. Just like in 2002, she felt she had done enough to win, and she knew that was her last Olympics. She threw the medal into her locker and slammed it closed, and didn't want to go to the victory ceremony. She had to be coaxed to go out on the podium.