Olympics

[alyeskakc]

Here is a link to the whole story about how and why the Canadians are 
getting the gold medal they deserve. The Russians are not losing 
their medal.

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/olympics/2002/
http://www.cnn.com/2002/US/02/15/oly.skate.row/index.html



--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at y..., "Kathryn" <kcawte at k...> wrote:

>   Although apparently (I didn't see this my dad did) the Russian 
guy all but said they didn't deserve it in an interview.

Just to clarify this statement. Anton Sikharulidze said that he and 
Yelena deserved to win the gold not Jamie and David. I wish I could 
find the exact quote but this one below is close to what he said 
yeasterday.

Sikharulidze said: "Yes I made a small mistake in my free program but 
the judges gave small (low) marks for technical merit. 
"(The Canadians') technical marks were higher than ours were. But 
there are two marks, technical merit and artistic impression and we 
had higher marks for artistic impression. That's why I don't 
understand what's going on, why there's such a big scandal from 
nothing."
   
Berezhnaya said: "We have looked again at how we skated and we think 
we are the winners and that we deserve the gold medal." 

http://www.msnbc.com/news/707789.asp

Cheers,
Kristin

::Hopes this finally changes the way skating does conducts business::