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...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...
...made a couple of small errors. As he took in the joy of winning, Strobl said afterward, "I'm not out to beat anyone when I'm skiing. When I ski, I just want to ski well." Eberharter hid his disappointment well. "Everyone was expecting me to win the gold medal," he said, "but I always said life can go a different...
...friend of Cavagnoud's, said that it had been very difficult to come to Salt Lake City without their outstanding skier. "As a team," she said, "we wanted to dedicate this Olympics to Régine." And she did it in the best way possible, by taking the downhill gold...