Medal Award Ceremony, Part 1 of 2 - 2002 Salt Lake City, Figure Skating, Pairs' Figure Skating

Salt Lake City, Utah, USA - 2002 Winter Games, Figure Skating, Pairs' Free Skate - Part 1 of 2 of the Medal Award Ceremony where Russia's Berezhnaya & Sikharulidze won Gold; Canada's Sale & Pelletier won Silver; and China's Shen & Zhao won the Bronze.

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Sports

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• Berezhnaya
• Sikharulidze
• Sale
• Pelletier
• Shen
• Zhao
• 2002
• figure
• skating

[libralady1010]

This is something I would like to say: Elena &Anton skated a perfect OP. The lean, the edge. They should've rec'd 6.0's. It was PERFECT.

The music-beautiful,technique-exce­llent.

Sale'&Pelletier FELL at the end of their OP yet the Canadian & German judges placed them 1st ?!

Yes.Let's question the judges& also watch the warm-up. B&S were doing a pair move-the rules state a pair move takes priority in warm-up,yet Jamie crashes into B&S-she's doing a solo move & has the temerity to complain?

[escaflowne9282take2]

@3Axel1996 This is not true at all. The substitute judge under the ordinal system was only used if a judge is sick ,or ill during a competition and cannot finish voting on the night . It was not the role (neither given nor implied) of the substitute (or any other judge) to be used after the fact.. and in previous events when judges had been caught much more blatantly than the French judge, their ordinals/results remained in tact, and they were merely suspended

[averageworkinggal]

Russia, China, Ukraine and Poland had the Russians first. US, Canada, Germany and Japan had the Canadians first. It was the French judge, the 9th judge, that was part of the quid pro quo judging scandal that sold out the Canadians in Pairs to vote for the Russians as part of the quid pro quo with the Russians.

[jeaniscreative]

No the Canadian flag above the 2 stands for the country they are representing. I believe it was Russia that put them 2nd. I'm glad they are co-gold owners. They should have won that w/o doubts.

[snofagun1814]

THE CANADIAN JUDGE PUT SALE/PELLETIER #2? EH?

[Anastasia14094]

Они бы еще поставили 3 пары на 1 место вообще бы небыло удивлений

[ShiningNow]

Oh, Canada.

[hikaruceres]

I remember that the previous year at the world championship, Sale made a similar error like Anton, (steping out of a jump i think) and they still won the championship wich was in Canada, no one complaint then. I saw both programs and even withAnton's mistake, the program was beautiful, great flow and connections, everything was a continuation of the previous movement. Much interesting than love story.

[tinymavy]

Elena looks like a beautiful little pixie. I wish she would smile more. you won the gold girl!

[itsnoholiday]

SPOILED BRAT'S!

[3Axel1996]

@escaflowne9282take2 Thanks for the correction.