2002 Olympics Ice Skating Winter Salt Lake City Figure Dancing
All figure skating events in 2002 winter olympics were held at the salt lake ice center. At the 2002 salt lake city olympics, one of the biggest judging scandals in figure skating history deprived canadian pair jamie sale and david pelletier of their moment of glory. Official figure skating results from the salt lake city 2002 olympics.
Winter Olympics Salt Lake City 2002 Figure Skating Ice Dancing
There have been 286 medals (96 gold, 95 silver, and 95 bronze) awarded to figure skaters representing 29 representing national olympic committees. Sarah hughes (usa) claimed gold, irina slutskaya (rus) silver and michelle kwan (usa) completed the podium. Six events have been contested but one, men's special figures, was discontinued after a single olympics.
Held at the salt lake ice center, the 2002 figure skating program had no significant changes from the 1994 and 1998 winter olympics.
On february 15, 2002, the international olympic committee announces it has sufficient evidence of fraud by a french judge and awards a second gold medal in pairs figure skating at the The international olympic committee (ioc) executive board decided to award jamie salé and david pelletier from canada a gold medal in the figure skating, pairs competition in salt lake city. Following a meeting with ioc president jacques rogge, international skating union (isu) president ottavio cinquanta called an isu council meeting on 14 The biggest news of the 2002 olympic winter games was the controversy surrounding the pairs figure skating event.
On the night of the free skate, the leaders were the russians, yelena berezhnaya and anton sikharulidze , with the canadian pair, jamie salé and david pelletier , close behind in second. The saga focuses on two skating couples: Canada’s jamie salé and david pelletier and russia’s elena berezhnaya and anton sikharulidze. Find out who took home gold, silver and bronze in 2002.
From an emotional opening ceremony to a shock figure skating scandal, here are most dramatic and memorable events of the 2002 winter olympics.
17, 202 at the salt lake ice center during Still recovering from a punishing bout with the flu, a weakened jamie salé boarded a flight to the 2002 salt lake city olympics with her pairs partner, david pelletier. Down the gangway and onto The controversial story of the canadian figure skating pair who lost the gold medal to their russian counterparts during the 2002 winter olympics.
The scandal subsequently lead to thorough changes in the figure skating judging system. With her former husband david pelletier, she is the 2002 olympic champion and 2001 world champion. The olympic gold medals of salé and pelletier were shared with the russian pair elena berezhnaya and anton sikharulidze after the 2002 winter olympics figure skating scandal. The team event is the newest olympic figure skating event, olympic games figure skating results:
Men's single skating was contested during the figure skating events at the 2002 winter olympics.
This men's olympic event was last where the 6.0 system was used. This individual event was structured in a similar manner to the pairs event, with a short program and a free skating. 28 skaters entered the short program, but only the top 24 competitors continued to the free skating. Find out who took home gold, silver and bronze in 2002.
The saga focuses on two skating couples: Canada’s jamie salé and david pelletier and russia’s elena berezhnaya and anton sikharulidze. The international olympic committee (ioc) executive board decided to award jamie salé and david pelletier from canada a gold medal in the figure skating, pairs competition in salt lake city. Following a meeting with ioc president jacques rogge, international skating union (isu) president ottavio cinquanta called an isu council meeting on 14
The biggest news of the 2002 olympic winter games was the controversy surrounding the pairs figure skating event.
On the night of the free skate, the leaders were the russians, yelena berezhnaya and anton sikharulidze, with the canadian pair, jamie salé and david pelletier, close behind in second. Whoever won the free skate would win the gold The women's free program was held on 21/02/2002 at the delta center.
