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While most judges are not corrupt, skating veterans say fixes have been a problem for years. "All titles are decided ahead of time," said France's Isabelle Duchesnay, a 1992 silver medalist in ice-dancing. If there's an upside to Skategate, it's the new momentum for reform and the raised hopes that all judging will be as clean as the golden performance of Sale and Pelletier...
While most judges are not corrupt, skating veterans say fixes have been a problem for years. "All titles are decided ahead of time," said France's Isabelle Duchesnay, a 1992 silver medalist in ice-dancing. If there's an upside to Skategate, it's the new momentum for reform and the raised hopes that all judging will be as clean as the golden performance of Sale and Pelletier...
...grace and perfection all week long. But the best and most innovative skating of the Olympics came in the earlier ice-dancing competition. The Unified Team's Marina Klimova and Sergei Ponomarenko took the gold decisively with a bold, sexy program, while France's celebrity couple, Isabelle and Paul Duchesnay, were somewhat off form and had to settle for silver. Maia Usova and Alexander Zhulin, also from the Unified Team, skated lightly and impudently to the bronze...
...innovation to the sport that they leave unerasable tracks in the ice long after they have retired from amateur competition. In 1984 Britain's Jayne Torvill and Christopher Dean did just that with their gold-winning Olympic performance to Ravel's Bolero. Now come France's Isabelle and Paul Duchesnay, a sister-and-brother team as explosive and exotic as Torvill and Dean were cool and polished. If the British champions were elegance on ice, the French pair set the rink afire...
...impossible to detect where one Duchesnay's effort ends and the other's begins. They insist that their musical, athletic and competitive talents are equally matched. "We split the stunts up fifty-fifty," says Isabelle. Concurs Paul: "There isn't one who's lazier than the other." Having spent almost every day of their lives together since adolescence, they claim to be totally in synch. "I know exactly how he feels on the ice every minute of every day," Isabelle states. Remarkably, the two say they have never considered splitting up the team. "Even if we lose," says Isabelle...