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Gamines are always a big hit at the Olympics, whether they're ice skaters or gymnasts. Perhaps the first celebrity sprite was Belarus gymnast OLGA KORBUT, whose feats of elasticity in 1972 earned her three gold medals. Unfortunately, she seems to have tumbled in her middle years. Now 46 and living in Atlanta, Korbut was arrested recently for shoplifting $19 worth of groceries. It was further revealed that in December, police who arrived at her apartment with an eviction notice found $30,000 in counterfeit bills. A friend said Korbut was not living there at the time...
...after a figure-skating performance that Sale, like most spectators, deemed "absolutely perfect." Their closest competition, Russia's Elena Berezhnaya and Anton Sikharulidze, had made a clear error - he stumbled coming out of a double axel. Yet five of the nine judges placed the Russians first. They got the gold, and the Canadians settled for silver...
...seat was French judge Marie-Reine Le Gougne. She told an International Skating Union panel that "a certain pressure" compelled her to vote for the Russians. The I.S.U. suspended Le Gougne and recommended that the Canadians be given a gold medal. I.O.C. chief Jacques Rogge praised the "decision of fairness and justice...
...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...
Hermann Maier to snatch gold. At Lillehammer in 1994, America's Tommy Moe grabbed gold over Norway's homegrown favorite, Kjetil Andre Aamodt. So it went at Snowbasin for Austria's season-dominating Stephan Eberharter. Almost predictably, he missed the gold...