Anton Sikharulidze
Russian figure skater
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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 - In David Pelletier
…Russian pair, Yelena Berezhnaya and Anton Sikharulidze.
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