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...sappy and show biz. Looking over the roster of judges, many people expected a kind of cold war face-off. The judges from the U.S., Canada, Germany and Japan were more likely to back the Canadians. The Russians could likely count on the judges from China, Russia, Ukraine and Poland. That would leave the French judge, Le Gougne, as the likely deciding vote...
Favorite vacation spot: Paros, an island in Greece. Also, this random farm village in Poland. My roommate was from there. I’ve never been taken care of so well. They forced liquor on us. The first day we had five shots of vodka at nine in the morning. We finished 19 bottles that day. Then there was a dance party with a bunch of old Polish grandmas...
Sitting on the bar at the top of the K90 hill, Simon Ammann felt "horrible, I was so nervous." The 20-year-old Swiss who had never won an international competition was up against the two big names of ski jumping, Germany's Sven Hannawald and Adam Malysz of Poland. But by the time Ammann leapt out into the pristine air over the Utah Olympic Park, he knew his final jump would be a good one. With a distance of 98.5 m and a perfect landing, it gave him the gold. He thus became the first Swiss ever...
...sappy and show biz. Looking over the roster of judges, many people expected a kind of cold war face-off. The judges from the U.S., Canada, Germany and Japan were more likely to back the Canadians. The Russians could likely count on the judges from China, Russia, Ukraine and Poland. That would leave the French judge, Le Gougne, as the likely deciding vote...
...While the crowd and the NBC commentators thought Sale and Pelletier were the clear winners, five judges, from Russia, China, France, Poland and Ukraine ranked Berezhnaya and Sikharulidze first. "It's an embarrassment for the sport, absolutely," says Lori Nichol, who choreographed the Canadians' program. Sale held back tears only long enough to receive her silver medal, and Pelletier broke down at the press conference minutes afterward...