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Since Hughes was the first of the medal contenders to skate, she didn't know exactly what she had done. Or that her program would weather assaults from Sasha Cohen, favorite Michelle Kwan and Russia's Irina Slutskaya to stand, at the end of the evening, as worthy of Olympic gold. As she came off the ice, none of that mattered. "Going in, I didn't think I had a chance for gold, let alone a medal, given who was skating here," Hughes says. "So I didn't hold back...
...which Rogge and Cinquanta announced the dual-medal solution, Cinquanta refused to make public the evidence against Le Gougne or to offer details on just who had pressured her. It was reported that he has received four additional complaints of judging misconduct related to last week's pairs-skating event. One claims that at the Skate Canada Grand Prix in Saskatoon, Sask., last November, Le Gougne was allegedly asked by a Russian judge to vote for the Russian pairs team at the Winter Games...
...WHAT IT IS A jump in which skaters glide on the back outside edge of one skate, kick off from the toe pick of the other and land on the edge of that skate. The rotation forces the upper body to turn in the opposite direction from the hips when entering the jump, making the move more difficult for women than for men to perform, since they have less upper-body strength to fight the lower body's rotation...
...WHAT IT IS Gliding in a continuous arc on either the inside or outside edge of one skate with the other leg extended behind. Variations include grabbing the free leg with one hand or switching edges in midglide (which is considered more difficult...
...seconds. But Shimizu, on painkillers for a back injury, got gold four years ago in Nagano, when Japan won five gold medals in all. This year it will be lucky to get any. The big Asian upset came in the women's 1,500-m short track speed skate, expected to be dominated by a Chinese pair of Yang Yangs. Yang Yang (S) banged into the side with four laps to go while Yang Yang (A) proved to be all Yin and never threatened. Instead, the race was won by the only athletes so far to truly claim an event...