Filed under: Figure SkatingOne of the reasons many sports fans don't take figure skating seriously is because the winner is determined by judges. Boxing has judges too, but frequently they're rendered unnecessary because one fighter pounds the other into goo.
That's not the case in skating. Eight years ago, a coalition of Olympic figure skating judges told everybody they didn't see what they swore they saw. It looked like the Canadian pair of Jamie Salé and David Pelletier had outskated Russia's Yelena Berezhnaya and Anton Sikharulidze, but the judges said otherwise. Eventually a French judge admitted she was pressured to give the gold to the Russians.
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