1.   Gabe and Karen are like an Olympic rowing pair, dependent on synchronized strokes.

2.   Karen Courtland-Todd Reynolds, the other Olympic pair, have split up.

3.   Ronald Pfenning, the head referee who oversaw the Olympic pairs competition on Monday night, filed a report after the event concerning judging improprieties.

4.   Several other skating officials are expected to testify, including Ron Pfenning, the referee of the Olympic pairs event.

5.   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.

6.   The Olympic pairs champion Artur Dmitriev withdrew on Tuesday after a sushi dinner left him with food poisoning.

7.   The Olympic pairs controversy has pointed up holes in the ISU rules, which did not allow for changing results as a result of judging misconduct.

8.   The Olympic pairs figure skating champions, Yekaterina Gordeyeva and Sergei Grinkov, train in Moscow but have a home in Florida.

9.   Their coach, Tamara Moskvina, has guided three Olympic pairs champions.

10.   They were two-time Olympic pairs gold medalists, four-time world champions.