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At the 2002 Winter Olympics held in Salt Lake City, allegations arose that the pairs' figure skating competition had been fixed. The controversy led to two pairs teams receiving gold medals: the original winners Elena Berezhnaya and Anton Sikharulidze of Russia and original silver-medalists Jamie Salé and David Pelletier of Canada.
Medals awarded Monday, February 18, 2002. Russian skater Anissina emigrated to France after Averbukh, her former partner, left her to skate with Lobacheva. It was the first gold in Olympic figure skating for France since 1932. The first compulsory dance was the Quickstep. The second was Blues.
Le Gougne became known for her role in the 2002 Olympic Winter Games figure skating scandal.Although four other judges also placed Yelena Berezhnaya and Anton Sikharulidze ahead of the crowd favorites Jamie Salé and David Pelletier in the pairs free skating, Le Gougne was immediately singled out for suspicion by television commentators and other observers.
Tara Lipinski talked to the 3rd hour of TODAY about the figure skating judging controversy that took place at the 2002 Winter Olympics and how it led to changes in the sport.
The 2002 Olympics in Salt Lake City were rocked by a scandal in pairs figure skating. In the long program, Canada's Jamie Salé and David Pelletier executed a beautiful and moving skate that was ...
In September 2021 Netflix premiered docuseries Bad Sport that includes an episode ("Gold War") detailing the events of the 2002 Winter Olympics figure skating scandal. Sikharulidze appeared only in archival footage and did not participate in the documentary, though his former partner Berezhnaya did.
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First taking the reins of the FFSG in 1998, Gailhaguet was a central figure in the 2002 Olympic Winter Games figure skating scandal, in which French judge Marie-Reine Le Gougne said that she had judged wrongly in the pairs competition under pressure from Gailhaguet as part of an arrangement between the FFSG and the Russian skating federation related to the future ice dance competition.