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...Sale and Pelletier thought they deserved gold, and the audience thought they deserved gold, what happened? Skating judges are as close-mouthed as Secret Service agents about their decisions, so we many never know what they saw in the Russian pair that they didn't in the Canadian duo. Five of them ranked the Russsians for gold, despite Sikharulidze's slip on the double axel jump and Berezhnaya's skittery landings on the throw jumps. Sikharulidze, for his part, defended their performance and their finish. "I try hard, I try my best," he said. "We don't make big mistakes...
...just after the first round of the men's 500m speedskating; Jeremy Wotherspoon, the Canadian favorite and front-runner for gold, has just lost everything by tripping on his skate two seconds into the race. Reporters, particularly those writing for a Canadian audience, are hotly debating whether Jeremy will talk. "I heard he's not talking to anyone until tomorrow," one Canadian Broadcasting Corporation reporter announces. "That's crap," mutters his colleague. "Can he even do that to us?" We all pace back and forth, arguing over whether poor Jeremy will inflict this insult...
...gold medallist, Frenchwoman Carole Montillet, was all but ignored by the American media, despite having the ride of her life down Snow Basin's Wildflower course. Montillet's victory was a great story - before claiming Olympic gold, the 28-year-old had never won a world-class downhill race in her life. She thrashed the competition by 45 hundredths of a second, an eternity in Alpine skiing...
...cameras, save for those operated by Europeans, were trained firmly on Street and her all-American appeal. Bronze medal winner Renate Goetschl, of Austria, said she wasn't at all surprised by the attention given to a skier who finished 1.61 seconds off gold medal pace. "It was her last Olympic Games and her last race, and she is one of the big favorites here," she said. "Everybody wants to help her and to cheer...
...produced plenty of wonderful women's skiers and athletes, but few of them want to spend hours giving interviews and spending time in the bleachers. It is also unlikely that anyone relishes the attention more, and copes with it quite as well, as the Super G gold medallist from Nagano...