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...Early on Tuesday morning, just hours after the gold medal had gone to the Russians, Yelena Berezhnaya and Anton Sikharulidze, the nine judges of the pairs event and two referees convened in a windowless basement room of the Salt Lake Ice Center. The door was sealed with thick tape that kept prying reporters from eavesdropping on the deliberations. It also prevented them from hearing the weeping of the French judge, Marie-Reine Le Gougne. Ron Pfenning is the U.S. referee who would bring Le Gougne's accusations to Ottavio Cinquanta, president of the International Skating Union. Last week he told...
...Apolo Anton Ohno, the 19-year-old skating sensation, anchored the relay and electrified the sellout crowd of 15,394 when he burst away from the second-place Italian team with about seven laps to go. He finished off the victory by gliding across the line on one skate, punching a fist...
...allegations go, pressure from outside sources was the reason "skate gate" judge Le Gougne voted for Russian pairs team Elena Berezhnaya and Anton Sikharulidze over the cleaner-skating Canadian pair Jamie Sale and David Pelletier Monday night. Didier Gailhaguet, head of the French Olympic committee, told a reporter that Le Gougne had been pressured to cast her vote a certain...
...last night at the pairs competition at the Salt Lake Ice Center. The 16,400-strong audience had it right when they booed the results. Canadians Jamie Sale and David Pelletier skated the proverbial performance of their lives - fast, sure, clean and confident - and yet Russians Elena Berezhnaya and Anton Sikharulidze finished ahead of them for gold...
...watch this spectacle on ice and snow. The last time we were transfixed together, it was in horror. In the next two weeks, some image will grab us once again, if much more gently. Will Sasha Cohen be the first woman to land a quad in competition? Will Apolo Anton Ohno sweep all his races? Will Picabo Street withstand one last downhill dash? A few months ago, how much would we have cared? It is a pleasure now to pull up a chair and give these athletes our full attention, to savor their fervor and cheer them...