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EARKIWD?type=topnews&StoryID=602368 WJPBR Email News List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Peace at any cost is a Prelude to War! Canadians Skaters Get Gold, Russians Furious February 15, 2002 03:42 PM ET By John Mehaffey SALT LAKE CITY (Reuters) - Canadian figure skaters Jamie Sale and David Pelletier were awarded a pairs gold medal Friday after the International Olympic Committee moved swiftly to defuse a judging scandal overshadowing the Winter Games. IOC president Jacques Rogge told a news conference the Canadian duo would be given the second gold of the event following a decision by the International Skating Union to suspend a French judge in Monday's final. ISU president Ottavio Cinquanta said Marie-Reine Le Gougne, who had voted for the Russian winners Yelena Berezhnaya and Anton Sikharulidze in the 5-4 split decision, had been suspended for misconduct. The Russians will retain their gold medal. It is only the third time in the history of the modern Summer and Winter Olympics that a result has been overturned for something other than doping. The Canadians reacted with relief, Russia with outrage. "We are happy justice has been done," Pelletier told a news conference. "It does not take anything away from Yelena and Anton. This was not something against them. It was something against the system." RUSSIAN FURY Russian Olympic Committee official Rudolf Nezvegsky told Reuters Rogge had given a clear signal that competition could be determined in the courtrooms, not the sports arena. "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," he said. Back in the competition arenas, there was some solace for Russia when Olga Danilova won her country's first cross-country skiing gold medal of the Games in the combined pursuit. Danilova outpaced team mate Larisa Lazutina in the five km classical race by only 0.2 of a second to set up an exciting battle with the five times Olympic champion in the 10 km freestyle leg. She was happy to shadow her team mate for the first half of the race and made the decisive break after 3.7 kms before opening up a gap on the final downhill. Danilova added the gold to the silver medal she won in the women's 10 km classical and her two golds from Nagano, while Lazutina has now won two silvers at these Games. In the luge, Germans Patric-Fritz Leitner and Alexander Resch, the overall World Cup champions, dashed the host nation's title hopes with victory over Mark Grimmette and Brian Martin. At Park City, Isabelle Blanc won an all-French final over favorite Karine Ruby in the debut Olympic parallel giant slalom snowboarding event, Ruby, the 1998 giant slalom champion, left herself too much to do after finishing 1.8 seconds behind in the first run. *COPYRIGHT NOTICE** In accordance with Title 17 U. S. C. Section 107, any copyrighted work in this message is distributed under fair use without profit or payment to those who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information for nonprofit research and educational purposes only.[Ref. http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml ] Want to be on our lists? Write at [EMAIL PROTECTED] for a menu of our lists! Write to same address to be off lists! <A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/";>www.ctrl.org</A> DECLARATION & DISCLAIMER ========== CTRL is a discussion & informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substance—not soap-boxing—please! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'—with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright frauds—is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. ======================================================================== Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html <A HREF="http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html";>Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]</A> http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ <A HREF="http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/";>ctrl</A> ======================================================================== To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
