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作者：安魂曲 在 罕见奇谈 发贴, 来自 http://www.hjclub.org
Sale and Pelletier strike gold!
SALT LAKE CITY -- Canada's Jamie Sale and David Pelletier will get a gold medal in the Olympics pairs figure skating.
"A gold medal will be awarded to the Canadian pair," said International Olympic Committee (IOC) president Jacques Rogge in a joint news conference with International skating union president Ottavio Cinquanta this afternoon.
The Russian team will not be stripped of their gold medal.
And the French judge at the centre of the controversy has been suspended as a result of her conduct, Cinquanta said. To award the gold medal, her marks were thrown out, and the other eight judges' marks were ruled as a tie.
"The decision is that we have suspended with immediate effect the judge of figure skating Mrs. La Gougne," said Cinquanta in a joint news conference with Rogge. "The judge is the one forming the result. Anthing else that is related to this case will be given proper attention, but at this moment we won't say anything else. We have to respect procedures."
Both Rogge and Cinquanta stressed that despite these decisions, the investigation has not yet concluded.
Cinquanta said he has proposed to Rogge that the gold medals be presented on the last day of the last figure skating event on Feb. 18. That has yet to be decided.
"I must say that public opinion helped a great deal because there was this push for us to make this quick decision," said Cinquanta.
This is the fourth time in the history of that Olympics that the IOC has made such a decision, Rogge said. In 1993, the IOC awarded a second gold medal in synchronized swimming from the Barcelona Games to Canada's Sylvie Frechette.
The IOC's executive board agreed that Frechette was placed second because of a judging error and should be awarded a gold.
"I don't think this has done damage to the Olympic movement because it was done fast in the interest of athletes and in the interest of sport," said Rogge.
On Thursday, Rogge opened the door to awarding a second set of gold skating medals, saying that the IOC would consider any request from the ISU.
Also this aftenroon, the Court of Arbitration for Sport will hold a hearing at 4 p.m. EST (2 p.m. local time) in Salt Lake City -- led by arbitrators from England, Italy and Switzerland -- to hear the appeal by the Canadian Olympic Association.
Canadian officials want the nine people who judged Monday's pairs competition to testify before the court.
Pelletier, in his baldest statement so far, said the issue was a rigged judgment, not the gold medal.
"We're not saying we deserve the gold," he told NBC News. "We're saying this is wrong because somebody cheated."
Meanwhile, other reports have emerged that may shed light on the judging.
Russians Anton Sikharulidze and Yelena Berezhnaya won the gold medal over the Canadian team even though they made mistakes in their free skate program. Five of nine judges voted for the Russians. One of them was French judge Marie-Reine Le Gougne, who reportedly said she was pressured into her vote.
The CBC reported Thursday that International Skating Union head referee Sally-Anne Stapleford told CBC commentator Chris Cuthbert of "some kind of impropriety."
Stapleford, a former British skater, said in the presence of her lawyer Le Gougne had discussed with her some kind of impropriety in her hotel just before the pairs event.
Stapleford, who has been a coach, judge and official for some 20 years, took that information to the event referee and the head of the International Skating Union.
In a separate report, Didier Gailhaguet, the head of the French Olympic team, described Le Gougne as a fragile woman who was manipulated and pressured by others around her. Le Gougne has reportedly left Salt Lake City.
Gailhaguet, who is also head of the French figure skating federation, told the Associated Press that Le Gougne was "somewhat manipulated," but he denied any wrongdoing by his federation.
"Some people close to the judge have acted badly and have put someone who is honest and upright but emotionally fragile under pressure," he said. But later in the day, Gailhaguet said his remarks had been misinterpreted.
"I totally reject the interpretation placed on words attributed to me," he said in a statement released by the French National Olympic Committee.
However, the Associated Press said it stands by its story.
"There was no misinterpretation on our part," said AP sports editor Terry Taylor. "Our reporter called Gailhaguet on his cellphone, identified himself and conducted an interview entirely in French for at least five minutes."
And the debate continues over who should lead the investigation.
Some have suggested the IOC is trying to take control of the dispute from the International Skating Union by proving the judge violated a pledge to be impartial, said Canadian IOC member Paul Henderson.
"It's a question of the Olympic oath," Henderson, who is president of the International Sailing Federation, said in an interview.
"If the officials violated the Olympic oath, it's no longer a federation matter, it's an Olympic matter."
Sale and Pelletier, who have been granting interviews to media ranging from The Tonight Show to Larry King Live, were less public on Thursday
"Everything is slowly being talked about and revealed and we're very happy that's actually happening," Sale said during a brief appearance.
"All we want is for the truth to come out and for this to be resolved and hopefully never to happen again.
"Dave and I have nothing to do with this, as well as the other skaters, we have everybody else working on it and it will hopefully get resolved."
They were then pulled away from reporters by a swelling number of aides that now surround them constantly. The couple pleaded with handlers for the afternoon off and their request was granted.
The Russian pair insisted last night in a Larry King interview that they deserved their gold.
"We had a lot of parts in our program that were more difficult," Sikharulidze said.
As for the idea of two gold medals, Sikharulidze said: "It's not my business. I am not political. I am a skater. I want to just skate."
© Copyright 2002 CanWest Interactive and The Ottawa Citizen. With files from The Canadian Press
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