1.   Americans decry bloc judging and institutional cheating but had no problem jumping into the Canadian pairs camp with few of the facts.

2.   Canadian pairs skaters Jamie Sale and David Pelletier got theirs after six days, but Kwan has had to work four years for another shot.

3.   Four days after they left the ice, Canadian pair Jamie Sale and David Pelletier skated to the Olympic gold medal on a sea of paper.

4.   Rather, he said he became unnerved by stress over the judging furor that has mushroomed since Russian skaters were awarded the gold medal over a Canadian pair.

5.   So the Canadian pair gets a gold medal, too, and the Russians are allowed to keep theirs.

6.   The Canadian pair of Colleen Miller and Wendy Wiebe was first, and in second were Aifang Zhong and Shaoyan Ou of China.

7.   The Canadian pair were awarded the medals six days after they won silver in the controversial Olympic pairs competition and a French judge was suspended for misconduct.

8.   The Canadian pairs team announced their retirement from amateur skating Tuesday.

9.   The Canadian pair captured the Grand Prix final in Kitchener, Ontario, but even that was riddled with controversy.

10.   The tears were real and justified for Canadian pairs skater Jamie Sale.