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Though the ruling gratified Sale and Pelletier, they said the title wasn't enough. "For the future of our sport," Sale said, "the truth still has to come out." Slowly, some of it began to. Le Gougne reportedly told the panel that it was her own federation's president, Didier Gail-haguet, who had influenced her. The idea was that by helping Russia to a gold, a Russian judge might return the favor in ice dancing, in which France is a favorite. (There is suspicion, but no evidence, of Russian collusion in the incident...
MADAGASCAR Poll Rivals Talk The Organization of African Unity came to the rescue to resolve a crisis over disputed results in December's presidential election. OAU chief Amara Essy brought President Didier Ratsiraka and opposition leader Marc Ravalomanana together for talks to end masssive protests over the poll. The second round of voting has been postponed until a commission representing both sides can find a way forward...
...Gougne, 40, the crucial swing vote of the pairs-skating event the night before, had sobbed to the astonished judges that her decision had been coerced. Le Gougne claimed that she had voted for the Russian skaters at the direction of the French skating federation and its president, Didier Gailhaguet. "She was very emotional," recalls Pfenning. "She said she was pressured, that she had to put the Russians first, and she said, 'We must do something...
...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...
...Hundreds of thousands of people joined opposition rallies in Antananarivo, the capital, as antigovernment forces pledged to press on with a strike that has paralyzed the country for two weeks. Opposition leader Marc Ravalomanana claims to have won the Dec. 16 presidential vote but says that backers of incumbent Didier Ratsiraka rigged results to force a runoff...