11. They accepted the Canadian pair as co-champions. 12. Yet Francois Carrard, the IOC director general, said the organization certainly had no regrets about awarding the Canadian pair the gold. 13. After she made a momentary admission at the Games that Gailhaguet forced her to do so, the Canadian pair got a unique duplicate gold. 14. But another gold will go to David Pelletier and Jamie Sale, the Canadian pair many observers said skated a better program than the Russians. 15. But the Canadian pair recovered to take the second run. 16. Canadian pairs figure skaters Marie-Claude Savard-Gagnon and Luc Bradet both caught the flu, said Janet Ames, chief medical officer for the Canadian team. 17. In an extraordinary development Friday, the Canadian pair was awarded a gold after the skating union said it uncovered misconduct by a French judge. 18. Last week, Canadian pairs skaters Jamie Sale and David Pelletier were given their own gold medal after the ISU found there had been misconduct by a judge. 19. Many Russians resented the decision to give a second gold to the Canadian pair, saying it showed an anti-Russian bias. 20. Maybe the IOC was right to hand a gold to the Canadian pair to match the Russian couple, but it failed to investigate before acting. |