Posted on 02/15/2002 11:42:28 AM PST by The_Victor
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"The council got enough evidence that this individual was responsible for misconduct. They (the skaters) were not judged equally."
Cinquanta said le Gougne had "practically admitted" she had been put under pressure during a meeting at which the American referee Ron Pfenning had been present. Earlier this week, Cinquanta said Pfenning had handed him a letter containing "certain allegations".
He added if a judge received pressure at any time the referee had to be informed.
RUSSIANS FURIOUS
"This did not happen in the case of Mrs. Le Gougne," Cinquanta said.
He said a council meeting on Monday would decide how long the suspension would last.
Pelletier and Sale told Canadian television after the announcement that justice had been done.
"Everyone knows what we deserve and we know what we deserve and we are taking that home with us and that's all that matters," Sale said.
"This is not about us and the Russians, this is about the sport we love dearly and justice was done, and that is a good feeling," said Pelletier.
"I hope it's not going to stop the cleaning of (figure skating's) house here," he added.
Sale said: "We just want the truth to come out and I think for the future of our sport this had to be fixed."
The Russian team reacted furiously to Friday's decision, describing it as a huge blow to the Olympic spirit.
Russian Olympic Committee official Rudolf Nezvegsky told Reuters: "By doing this, they just struck a huge blow, not only to the Olympic spirit of fair competition but also to the whole nature of sport.
"It went against any moral and ethical norms that exist in sport where athletes, not lawyers, compete against each other on the slopes and in the sports arenas and not in back rooms," Nezvegsky said.
"Mr Rogge, who has just become IOC president, probably does not understand what he has done for the sports movement for future Olympic Games (news - web sites)," Nezvegsky added.
Is that what was said when the Romanov's were exterminated?
Why are YOU watching the olympics with freds' wife???
FMCDH
It certainly should be, but it's apparently not so in skating. The judges that were caught "tapping their feet" to signal each other and "suspended" were judging internation competitions within months of their suspension. Contrast that to the case of baseball and Pete Rose.
Methinks she doth protest too much.
don't have dale carnagie over there, do ya.
Her scores may have even affected the winner of the bronze as well as the silver. If she deliberately rated all other expected contenders for the gold lower that they deserved, she cheated them also
Another possibility would be to bring in another truly independant judge unrelated and unallied to either Russia or Canada to review and judge films of the performances if such films exist. If that is done, then truly only the performances done that night would reflect who truly has won the medal.
In the Canadians case, they truly deserved the medal while in the Russians case, there is and always will be doubt.
In so far as to which program was simpler or more demanding, If the Canadians correctly performed the movements that the Russians faltered on, the Russians have nothing to say about who was more deserving.
OH this is classic. The Russians are really grasping here.
Can anyone explain why the Finnish judge gave the young Russian skater who followed Tim (yea for the bronze!) a 10th place ranking, far below the other judges' scores? He was robbed of 5th place. (^:
Who needs the silly, globalist-socialist spectacle that they call, mistakenly, the olympics?
That *is* what they did. It resulted in a 4-4 tie, thus the duplicate golds.
Good question. The Finnish judge was completely off kilter with the other judges at several points.
The "spirit" of the olympics has been corrupted for a long time and in Salt Lake it began before the city was selected!
So what? *All* of that "talk" is coming from the Russians. Consider the source.
What did you expect them to say? That they *had* pressured the judge and were very sorry? Is hell freezing over?
Serge. Interesting posting name. Russian, by chance?
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