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Tuesday, February 12, 2002
Sources say Russian and French judges made deal
By Cynthia Faulkner
ESPN.com
SALT LAKE CITY -- Sources within the International Skating Union have
told ESPN/ABC Sports figure skating reporter Christine Brennan that a
collaboration between the French and Russian judges helped spark the
controversy that has the skating world and the Winter Olympics abuzz.
The Canadian Olympic delegation on Tuesday requested an investigation
into why Russians Elena Berezhnaya and Anton Sikharulidze won the
gold medal when many observers feel that Canadians Jamie Sale and
David Pelletier were more worthy. Brennan, one of the world's leading
authorities on figure skating, says that reliable sources within the
ISU told her that a collaboration between the French and Russian
judges did happen. "When (figure skating officials) investigate, I
think they're going to find out that the French judge worked a deal
with the Russians," said Brennan, one of the world's leading
authorities on figure skating. "There's absolutely no doubt that the
Canadians should have won. Their 'Love Story' program was just
marvelous. The performance was perfect. "The Russian pair made small
errors including a small mistake on one jump. To me it's clear. It
should have be
en crystal clear for the Canadians." Brennan said she watched the tapes again and the
Canadians' performance only gets better. "I was shocked the moment I saw the scores
and I'm still shocked," she said. "I ran into three
international judges, all of them judging at the Olympics, within three minutes after
the competition. 'This is an outrage,' they said in unison. I've never seen judges
come up to a reporter -- as opposed to going away f
rom them -- and say this is an outrage." Until Monday, only a few diehard figure
skating fans in North America knew who Sale and Pelletier were. That's all changed.
"Their agent told me he's had about a hundred calls," Br
ennan said. "I'm guessing they are now a household name, which never would have been
if they'd won the gold medal with no controversy. I would imagine that they became
millionaires in the last 24 hours. The sympathy facto
r is huge." The scandal already is drawing comparisons to figure skating's most famous
pair of all -- Tonya Harding and Nancy Kerrigan. The story could grow if the United
States were to get involved because it's conceivab
le that if Sale and Pelletier should have won gold, Americans Kyoko Ina and John
Zimmerman could have won bronze, Brennan said. "This is really starting to remind me
of Tonya and Nancy, but it's not there yet," Brennan sa
id. "There's something about this that's starting to build and
there's the sense that the pace with which it's starting is like it
was with Tonya and Nancy. Now there's an investigation and the story
has legs." Cynthia Faulkner is the Olympics editor for ESPN.com.
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