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Pastimes : Salt Lake City 2002 Olympics -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Just G who wrote (61)	2/15/2002 1:26:25 PM
From: Doug Soon	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 238

I feel somewhat bittersweet that Sale and Pelletier will get their gold medal. Don't you just love politics. It was nothing but politics that created this situation and now, it is just politics they are using to "solve" the problem. The French judge was the only judge to have admitted any fault, so she gets hung out to dry. They conveniently, haven't found any other judges with dirty hands. Next, if the the French judge's marks are thrown out, there is a mechanism to recalculate the marks for all competitors. But no, they decide, without further explanation, just to award a second gold medal to Sale and Pelletier. The IOC wanted a quick solution, not a rational solution. They must have been surprised at the amount of negative publicity and relentless pressure coming from this incident. The problem just would not go away. If this was a non-Olympic year, it would have died down quickly and eventually forgotten. There is no commitment by the ISU that the politics of judging will ever change in this sport. On the contrary, political solutions continue to be the order of the day and unfortunately, will stay that way.