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Tonya Harding and her unfortunate crowbar antics were missed in Salt Lake City this year. But for figure skating fans with a leftover thirst for scandal, the Olympics did not disappoint. Matthew L. Butler ’04 was glued to the TV coverage of the controversial gold medal 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...
Butler was beside himself when Moscvina agreed to use Butler’s choice, which Olympic commentators said suited the Russian pair well. “It is an incredible selection, and it will be remembered forever because they won the gold medal to it,” Butler says...
...surpassed that of the Russians. The French judge claimed that the organization that governs French figure skating pressured her to favor the Russians despite an obvious technical error (Sikharvlidze stumbled on the landing of a double axel jump). Canadian Olympic officials promptly requested the international sports tribunal award a gold medal to the Canadian team and on Feb. 15 their request was met. The Canadians received a gold medal though the Russians were also allowed to keep theirs...
Butler disagrees with this decision. “I think that the Russians turned in a more complex program. There were two faults but I think they deserved the gold medal because of the difficulty of the program, Awarding two gold medals sets a bad precedent,” Butler says. “The Russians deserve it outright. I realize this is not the popular position to be taking, but people who know about skating understand why the Russians won. Without a more educated eye, you can’t understand things like edging and speed that the Russians...
Atop a 100-year-old mahogany table under the sparkling gold dome of the State House, Byrnes took full advantage of gubernatorial keycard access. After the fact, the two girls began rifling through the legislation on Weld’s desk. Byrnes sent them back to his apartment, fell asleep on the State House lawn for an hour and then wrote a speech in 30 minutes that Weld delivered in front of current Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer. “It was less of an incident than a way of life,” Byrnes says of the jaunt...