Figure Skating Scandal of 2002 SLC

Salt Lake City Scandal Dramatization / Explanation.

Yes steps have been taken - such as a new scoring system that is still in the adjustment stages - to ensure as much as possible this type of thing does not happen. But no sport is safe, lets hope you refs and judges out there are not going to STEAL from others to accomplish a petty hidden desire - never minding the pain and lasting implications to everyone else. That is - I think a Referee or Judge that has the notion to change the outcome of athletes dreams for their own ""greedy pocket"" are POSs.

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Sports

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• Figure
• Skating
• Scandal
• 2002
• SLC

[seenbuzzard]

Love these comments, but the ones that are gaining the more validity are stating "Salé in particular" is undeserving. The more I have learned about her from other skating forums and interactions, She is a little B and was antagonistic and belligerent competitor WHO also did not have the graceful posture and positing regardless of "clean." They are suited for pro circuit. The russians has a few tech flaws but what was done clean was superior the WHOLE season. That is the way they used to score.

[3kayt]

It's irrelevant who deserved gold at these games, they were both amazing teams. I'm glad Sale and Pelletier were awarded gold medals, and equally glad Berezhnaya and Sikharulidze got to keep theirs. The point is, it's the skaters who got screwed, and I'm so sick of reading judgmental crap from people who clearly know little to nothing about figure skating. Don't you think their Olympic moment was spoiled enough without a bunch of amateurs accusing them of cheating or media chasing?

[road2gold]

both the russins and the canadian won, they both got the gold medal because it wouldn't be fair to take it away from the rusians since they didn't do anything wrong

[Toghebon]

@SCDHSGrad2010 Oh sorry I couldn't hear you through the sound of how hard you fail. Did you say JOANNIE ROCHETTE?

[ShiningNow]

Be proud Canadians, you got your gold medals thanks to your incessant and unbearable complaints and cries! Hooray for you, here's to the Canadian way of winning!

[Toghebon]

Here are the marks given by 3 of the judges to the russians

Russian judge: 5.8 , 5.9

French judge: 5.8 , 5.9

Canadian judge: 5.7 , 5.8

The marks given to the canadians

Russian judge: 5.8 , 5.8

French judge: 5.8 , 5.8

Canadian judge: 5.9 , 5.9

It looks like the canadian judge had a much more accurate idea of which team should be Olympic Champion than the french, doesn't it? I wonder why they had to trash the french judge since it is obvious the canadian judge had totally rigged it.

[trophymursky]

Everyone is ignoring the fact the the judge signed a deposition saying that she didn't vote for russia cause of the pressure but the fact that she thought the russians were better. Its like if I were judging a slam dunk contest between michael jordan in his prime and some random high schooler that can kind of dunk. If someone goes up to me and tells me they'll pay me 100 bucks to vote for jordan and I ended up voting for jordan because he was better. It doesn't mean my vote was corrupted.

[annakfan]

@GravityGrave Totally agree he should have gotten a medal imho, he brings that star quality to the sport.

[GravityGrave]

@annakfan I know!! And you may not agree or care, but I personally feel that Johnny Weir was robbed of a medal. He may not have deserved gold or silver, but he should NOT have been placed at 6! What a sham!

[steelersboy2009]

@fspatin Say what you will...but Sale/Pelletier did deserve the gold medals like it or not. Yes...it wasn't the Russian skaters' faults, but with a noticeable mistake w. corrupt judging involved (yes, I know quite a bit of it goes on before you preach to me), in my eyes Russia was 2nd here to Canada's very flawless routine. A non-fall error is still an error.

[fspatin]

@steelersboy2009 The only ones who should be stripped are Sale/Pelletier. If they had any integrity they would return their fake gold medals themselves. It was bad enough the Canadian fed's lobbying campaign helped them "win" 2001 Worlds, they had no shame and also had to rob them of half the glory of Olympic gold. And then after Canada made such a big deal about how horribly wrong it is to win with a minor non-fall error, they have Patrick Chan win after splatting four times on his ass...