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Salon.com February 16, 2002 Kerry Lauerman |
Make Olympic skating judges accountable Awarding the Canadians the gold was a half-measure, but as long as figure skating is controlled by a bitchy sewing circle it won't be a real sport... |
Sports Illustrated February 14, 2002 Brian Cazeneuve |
Dominoes continue to fall Changes must take place to ensure figure skating's integrity |
Salon.com February 22, 2002 King Kaufman |
So, they're all gay, right? Former U.S. figure skating champion Rudy Galindo talks about the Salt Lake Olympics, the sport's effeminate image and the reactions to his coming out. And no, they're not... |
Sports Illustrated February 13, 2002 |
Figure skating's black eye Another controversial decision hurts the sport. Canadians Jamie Sale and David Pelletier were awarded the silver. |
Salon.com February 16, 2002 King Kaufman |
Fixing figure skating would kill it Without the diva judges, the bad costumes and the chance for scandal, it's just a chili cookoff on ice... |
Sports Illustrated February 22, 2002 E.M. Swift |
The golden child With nothing to lose, figure skater Sarah Hughes was simply terrific... |
Sports Illustrated January 16, 2002 Rick Reilly |
Dirty Dancing For some reason, the people who run figure skating have gotten all crabby about the crotch. In fact at the beginning of this season the International Skating Union (ISU) instructed its pairs skating and ice dancing judges to deduct points for "undignified" movements... |
Sports Illustrated February 22, 2002 |
Sneaking away with gold How Hughes impossibly vaulted ahead of Kwan, Slutskaya... |
Sports Illustrated February 15, 2002 E.M. Swift |
Yagudin steals the show Figure skating's focus returns to the ice |
Sports Central August 7, 2012 Brad Oremland |
Olympics: Gymnastics is Not a Sport I still believe what I wrote almost a decade ago: "If you need judges from seven countries to vote on who won, your activity is not a sport." |
Sports Central August 27, 2004 Eric Poole |
An Immodest Proposal It seems we can't get through an Olympics without having some sort of controversy over judging. That's because gymnastics are fundamentally flawed. |
Sports Illustrated February 21, 2002 Frank Deford |
Judge not Lack of accountability for officials is the problem... |
Sports Illustrated March 27, 2001 E.M. Swift |
They Spun Gold Glittering performances lit up the World Figure Skating Championships... |
Salon.com February 22, 2002 Gary Kamiya |
Golden girl 16-year-old Sarah Hughes, who looks like America's composite babysitter, shocks the figure-skating world -- and bails out the beleaguered Olympic judges... |
Sports Illustrated January 23, 2001 E.M. Swift |
Fall Guys While Michelle Kwan soared at the figure skating nationals, the men hit the deck... |
Salon.com February 14, 2002 Allen Barra |
I'm so outraged I could twirl! Something really ugly went down on the Olympic rink, and it wasn't just a Canadian skating costume... |
Sports Illustrated February 26, 2002 Rick Reilly |
The Gold Standard Sarah Hughes's Olympic gold medal in figure skating is the sweetest story in sports this century, and here's why... |
Sports Illustrated January 29, 2002 Tim Layden & Kostya Kennedy |
Seasonal Debate Forget the Summer Games, the Winter Olympics are tops... Put the Winter Games in deep freeze, the Summer Olympics are hot... |
Sports Illustrated February 26, 2002 Brian Cazeneuve |
Winter Games top 10 For those who have had enough of the pairs figure skating controversy, here, in no particular order, is a very unofficial Jamie Sale-and-David Pelletier-free list of the top 10 moments/sports/athletes, good and bad, from the just-completed Winter Games... |
Salon.com February 13, 2002 King Kaufman |
Skategate A figure skating scandal rocks the Games and tragically overshadows some fantastic women's curling... |
ifeminists October 31, 2007 Richard Cordero |
Alert from Judicial Discipline Reform Out of the 7,462 complaints filed against federal judges in the 10-year period 1997-2006, they disciplined only 9 of their peers! These are official statistics that the judges must file by law with the highest administrative body of the federal judiciary. |
Salon.com February 12, 2002 King Kaufman |
Dee-fense! It's missing in the Winter Olympics. But the Games have their moments, including a star-crossed pair of endearingly frumpy Canadians... |
Salon.com June 19, 2001 Steve France |
The anguish of the drug war judges Forced to hand down harsh sentences that defy their consciences, many federal judges are speaking out against a system that makes them do "ungodly things"... |
Reason August 2002 Sara Rimensnyder |
High Court How private are the private lives of judges? |
Sports Central February 25, 2006 Greg Wyshynski |
For USA Hockey, Miracles Can Wait The U.S. men's Olympic hockey team was overrated. Plus, a debate about sports vs. non-sports. |