Anton Sikharulidze | Russian figure skater (original) (raw)
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Salt Lake City 2002 Olympic Winter Games
In Salt Lake City 2002 Olympic Winter Games …than Russians Yelena Berezhnaya and Anton Sikharulidze, who had made several errors in their performance. After the competition, a judge admitted that she had been coerced into voting for the Russian pair by a skating official but later recanted her story. The resulting uproar from the public and the IOC… Read More
In Jamie Salé …than those of Berezhnaya and Sikharulidze, despite errors by the Russians. Moreover, five of the nine judges had awarded first-place ordinals to the Russians, so the Canadians received a silver medal. The result outraged many, and the French judge, Marie-Reine Le Gougne, claimed that she had been pressured to vote… Read More
