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...Salt Lake Ice Center. The 16,400-strong audience had it right when they booed the results. Canadians Jamie Sale and David Pelletier skated the proverbial performance of their lives - fast, sure, clean and confident - and yet Russians Elena Berezhnaya and Anton Sikharulidze finished ahead of them for gold...
...audience, placed the Canadian pair behind the Russians. Both couples skated powerful programs and both chose hauntingly romantic themes for the finals on Monday night. Berezhnaya and Sikharulidze had the weight on history on their blades; they were skating to maintain a Russia's 38-year stranglehold on the gold medal for pairs skating at the Olympics...
...share as an off-ice couple into their two-year old program, which still seemed as fresh and as passionate as the first time they performed it in 1999. Sale, despite the run-in and some lingering stomach pain, landed her throw jumps with more solid confidence than the gold-medal winning Berezhnaya had a few minutes before, and when the Canadians skated off the ice, they thought they had won gold...
...screen, the roar of cheers dropped to the roar of boos throughout the arena, drowning out the names of the final pairs competitors from China, who won bronze. "It's been a tough six months. " said Pelletier. "You go to the grocery store, and it's 'Bring back the gold.' You go to the hardware store, and it's 'Bring back the gold.' I'm just there to buy a hammer. It's six months of people's expectations coming out on me. So when the marks came up, I'm a human being, yes, I was sad to come...
...Everybody’s asking us about the gold medal game when we haven’t even played our preliminary games yet,” said U.S. women’s team captain Cammi Granato. “Our goal is obviously to get there, but we have to take it one step at a time...