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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...
...Russians did not skate their best. Berezhnaya and Sikharulidze had as many as six flaws in their program, notably Sikharulidze's stumble on the side-by-side double Axel. Berezhnaya's landings on the throw jumps were also not as smooth as Sale's. Though the Russians peppered their program with innovative moves--at one point Berezhnaya opened into a spread eagle with Sikharulidze clinging to her in a spiral--Sale and Pelletier were a miracle of unity...
...international judge for 15 years, would be suspended indefinitely for failing to tell the skating union immediately that she had been approached by people seeking to sway her vote. The only equitable solution would be to award a second set of gold medals to Sale and Pelletier while allowing Berezhnaya and Sikharulidze to keep theirs. For the first time, an Olympic medal decision would be changed as a result of a judge's misconduct...
...awards in the pairs figure skating competition for the same reasons most fans were: the beauty of the sport, the excitement of high level athletic achievement and, of course, crazy French judges. But Butler also had a bit more at stake in the success of the Russian skaters Yelena Berezhnaya and Anton Sikharvlidze because he handpicked their gold medal soundtrack. The pair glided to an Olympic gold medal on Feb. 11 after completing their long program, which was set to “Meditations from Thais” by the French composer Jules Massenet, which Butler selected for the Russian...
...good things possible for Butler, a member of the Harvard Figure Skating Club, who was asked to accompany Russian skaters from their training facility in Hackensack, N.J. to Cambridge for the October 2000 performance. Butler jumped at the chance to chat with coach Tamara Moscvina and her current pair Berezhnaya and Sikharvlidze. Moscvina proceeded to talk to Butler for the duration of the three-hour drive to Cambridge, he remembers, telling stories about her previous pairs teams and answering his endless queries about his favorite sport...