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Cinquanta insisted last week that there was no evidence of Russian involvement in the judging scandal. He also promised a continuing investigation. But once the Olympic committee decided to give Sale and Pelletier the gold, the Canadian Olympic Association dropped its request to have the matter go before the more independent sports arbitration court. That means that any investigation will continue largely within the more secretive confines of the I.S.U...
Their off-the-ice partnership is more suited to today's silver screen. Pelletier divorced his wife and last year moved in with Sale. And though they decline to discuss their romantic relationship, fans have caught flashes of it. After Sale bobbled at the recent Canadian championships, Pelletier had a full-blown tantrum that left Sale in tears. He later told the press he owed her an apology...
...minutes later, I found out what was wrong: a pair of Canadian figure skaters had been cheated out of a gold medal by dicey judging. In other words, no one had died--a huge relief. But try telling that to my Canadian mother-in-law. She called every hour for the rest of the evening, breathless with news of scandal and skulduggery. The unfairness! The horror! Her outrage was infectious. When I sat down to watch the Olympics the next night, I felt excitable too and strangely absorbed--not only by the skating controversy but by the Games in general...
...public is tired of controversy. I applaud the quick solution by the I.S.U. and International Olympic Committee last week, showing the world that the athletes should come first. I also salute the Canadian Olympic Committee for standing up for its athletes. But now let's get back to the real reason for the Games...
...official announcement that cheating has been added to the schedule of the Salt Lake City Olympic Games is being widely applauded as an ingenious gambit that instantly renders the current Canadian-Russian skating brouhaha, indeed all Games-related scandals, moot. Slimy and underhanded representatives of prestige-crazed nations the world over are ecstatic. "I salute the Olympic Committee for at long last granting chicanery its rightful place in amateur athletics," stated one behind-the-scenes manipulator, using a false identity. "No longer must we hide our handiwork in the shadows, only to be hauled before this or that tribunal...