Figure Skating Scandal Dominates at the Salt Lake City 2002 Olympics | Strangest Moments

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[@ajbrooks2112]

‘They chose a simpler routine.’ Shows the guy holding the girl with one hand while skating

[@2011Oly]

Yeah I noticed that too, its like saying their routine wasn't as good as the Russians, proving the point of the whole video.

[@daretodream9765]

All the pair skatets are capable of holding the girl partner with one hand, that's not an extra skill

[@ajbrooks2112]

@@daretodream9765 lol ok I’m just looking at it from the ‘can’t skate without someone/something helping me at 13 years old’ angle haha

[@loriott6708]

They mean the technic of elements of canadian pair was easier than of russian pair. And even if the elements of both pairs would be the same, the world should just compare a step up of the russian pair with the fail of the canadians. The mistake of the canadians of course bigger. That is why they should be second.

[@sorellman]

Do you realize that was only one element of the entire program, and that it was an easy one compared to other types of lifts? The Russian's program was better, even with that small fail. Other than that, the new scoring system has eliminated all the politics in skating scoring.

[@TriNguyen-ri5fh]

The gold medal also belongs to the hair and make up team of the French judge.

[@bhills1393]

Tri Nguyen they should be disqualified

[@rachaelbing6051]

She looks like rumple stilkskin's wife lmao

[@karinaquintero5324]

😂😂😂😂

[@onlystudy4741]

😁😁😂😂🤣

[@YourSportsHistorian]

When they said Anton did this I was expecting something much more dramatic

[@nesramirez9592]

Jacob Singleton when you’re in the olimpics messing up step sequences _is_ dramatic

[@nesramirez9592]

Jacob Singleton nevertheless I agree 100% I thought something bigger was in place Lol The word “scandal” caught me off guard

[@cazia9]

If you watch the 2 programs Sale and Pelletier had zero mistakes, that step out Anton had is considered worthy of deductions, that’s why the fans lost their minds at the flawless program scoring way lower and they suspected something afoot

[@s_h_h_h]

@@cazia9 zero mistakes?! what about their epic fail in the end of short program? Bourne and Kraatz fairly lost their medal because of same mistake.

[@aphroditewitch]

Zero mistakes? Sale cheated her jumps. Not to mention the program was junior level at best.

[@Ineddiblehulk]

lol. The dramatic reenactment! So dramatic!!

[@thomassutherland7032]

What was that shake-and-go Party City wig doing on her head, like you couldn't walk into a beauty supply store and pick up a better wig for 30 bucks

[@Ineddiblehulk]

Ha! Pound for pound I reckon the wig did the best acting.

[@Buender]

I'm hooked on these videos only for the reenactments

[@quayevano]

I almost cried... from laughter. Lol.

[@zeddy2284]

it was apalling lol

[@goldendelicious7155]

Those wigs tho!

[@Tefixitafuckme]

Ali MD Anybody would think that the Olympics production money was better, but apparently no

[@agapeeternal]

It was so bad 😂

[@ericmaine]

Yeah . I thought I was watching the real housewives of Atlanta for a minute with all those bad wigs!

[@aracelichely2954]

Do Sochi next. That gold medal belonged to Yuna kim, not Sotnikova. For me the biggest figure skating scaldal EVER.

[@o___o8716]

Araceli •Chely• agree. That olympics was SOO corrupt thanks to that! So much for that cheater sotnikova!

[@youngcho2110]

i 💗 yuna!

[@WelshSwan1986]

YES! Sotnikova shouldn't even have had silver!

[@legopachycephalosaurus6825]

Wait is this that story where apparently one of the skaters broke the other’s foot? If not wasn’t that deemed one of the BIGGEST scandals ever? Like they made a movie about it?

[@icsmoothie]

Nunyah Busy ness the one that your talking about is Tonya Harding and Nancy Kerrigan.

[@cj222100]

I felt bad for both couples during this. For the Canadians, because getting a duplicate gold in a separate ceremony just isn't the same.

[@wedgeantilles4712]

Yeah, it's almost a form of "you got your way, now shut up about this".

[@mothmadi_]

well i think giving the canadian pair gold but not revoking the gold from the russian pair was a good compromise and a good way to not embarrass any skater

[@Simon-d]

the Chinese bronze medalists didn't even bother to attend this farce

[@keganlb]

@@Simon-d "do we get silver now?" "no" "..."

[@wisdomfeeteverywhere4389]

but if you know that gold changed things for the better for everyone that would make me feel better

[@l.mcmanus3983]

This video really glosses over how widespread the problems were with figure skating judges favouring certain skaters and countries was up to that point. The problem did not magically go away with the new scoring system, but it was an improvement. Even with anonymity, it was pretty obvious sometime that certain judges had higher opinions of some skaters. But removing the highest and lowest scores given to a routine removed some bias.

[@elizabeth5985]

Yes like Surya Bonaly always being marked down for being Black. Okay, yes, not allowed to do back flips on ice. But she was ALSO marked lower because she was Black. And I'm not Black, I could just see the lower scores than she deserved.

[@KasumiRINA]

The problem didn't go away. They are still overscoring russians and ignoring the fact they're full of banned drugs.

[@thoseriseofkingdomsadswith972]

meanwhile we just got a Russian skater who tested positive for doping and was still allowed to compete, and Japanese and South Korean skaters still wildly underscored in the Women's event as Eteri continues to destroy young skaters

[@SilverAlaunt]

The male Russian skater looks like he belongs on your stereotypical romance novel cover.

[@ukrainekyiv7719]

Because he is of Georgian, not Russian origin.

[@SilverAlaunt]

@@ukrainekyiv7719 who is skating for the Russians. Thus, "Russian skater".

[@cyer_]

I'm glad I'm not the only one who that

[@RosovaEva]

And yet, the new system can be cheated, as proven with the gold of Sotnikova in Sochi. That was disgusting.

[@katebernas2496]

if its computerised and it was in Russia I would be very surprised if Russia didn't win

[@queenofnevers6990]

Even more now, when they extended the GOE cup up to 5 points.

[@samh.6886]

There's judging scandals going on and what do they do? Make the whole system anonymous!!

[@carolfoster9966]

The judges were paid off , that's why they always won

[@scorinth]

Sam Henderson If you don't know whose scores are going to count, who do you bribe? And if you don't know what score was given by the judge you bribed, how do you know they did what they agreed to do?

[@pytys]

Dummy

[@jamstreet008]

Made the system anonymous so the public will not able to know or even guess which judges got the bribe. The new system just give them a free pass to openly cheat or just an easy way to fix the score. 'Anonymous' mean that you can cheat the score and nobody will know.

[@alan137]

@@jamstreet008 scores will probably vary only slightly between judges, so if you were to bribe a judge, it'd be hard for you verify if they followed through. Also because only a random subset of the judges scores are taken, this makes it even harder to verify because you don't know who's score counted and there's no guarantee that a bribed score would even count. Is bribing still possible? Sure, but the new system discourages it as much as possible.

[@stellak.3703]

Figure skating skandal dominates at Soch 2014. I remember the same thing happened at Sochi 2014. Yuna Kim should have been the real champion in the women's singles skating event.

[@psychstudentrip]

Stella K. I mean there wasn’t really anything besides the hug. What could they possibly point out?

[@MrDelvoye]

Actually that not true technically tuna lost

[@user-fx4tb5xv6i]

Skandals: - american Evan Lysacek stole gold medal from brilliant Evgeni Plushenko - unknown american Sarah Hughes stole gold medal from excellent Irina Slutskaya and Ha-ha, that is why, there are so much strong russian girls now and they are dominated. Its justice!!!!!!

[@psychstudentrip]

катя катя Um, those aren’t scandals?

[@stellak.3703]

Sotnikova was not perfect at Sochi. Therefore, she is not entitled to such a huge TES score. Yuna's 3-3 jumps higher level than Sotnikova in the short program. In Yuna’s short program to score a minimum of 5 points or more higher. She performed with a jump of the maturity of the other players and it was a different level. Sotnikova did well in Sochi... BUT the Yuna’s level is another level. These ridiculous results favourable to Sotnikova biased referees(judges). Sochi's judgment are Russians or Russia were judged friendly to Eastern Europe. Who Were the Figure Skating Judges? ■ Judge No. 2: Yuri Balkov of Ukraine. At the 1998 Winter Games in Nagano, Japan, Balkov was taped by the Canadian judge Jean Senft explaining what order the competitors would finish in the ice-dancing competition before it took place. He was suspended for one year. He returned to judging and is certified by the international federation. ■ Judge No. 4: Zanna Kulik of Estonia. (Russia were judged friendly to Eastern Europe) ■ Judge No. 6: Alla Shekhovtsova of Russia. She is the wife of Valentin Piseev, general director of the Russian figure skating federation. ■ Judge No. 9: Adriana Domanska of Slovakia.(Russia were judged friendly to Eastern Europe) ■ Technical controller: Alexander Lakernik of Russia, who has been the vice president of the Russian figure skating federation. He was voted chairman of the international federation’s technical committee in the wake of the 2002 Salt Lake scandal. ■ Assistant technical specialist: Olga Baranova of Finland.(She is a naturalized Russian with Finland.) ■ Replay operator: Alexander Kuznetsov of Russia. In the aftermath of the judging scandal at the 2002 Salt Lake Games, Russian officials, including Kuznetsov, expressed frustration that the Canadians pushed to have the pair of Jamie Sale and David Pelletier elevated to a gold medal. “The Russians would never have brought up this issue,” said Kuznetsov, identified as a “figure skating coach.” “The Russians would have proven their right to victory at the next competition.” When you see this, what do you think? I come up with the word collusion, corruption, scandal. These referees are given to the players points in Sochi. OH! It’s an open and shut case! Indeed, were you can say these results would stand justified? So, So many people from these results, we can call a scandal in Sochi, home cooking. During a season in which any players are usually more than 50 points higher than the score to their last competition just like Sotnikova. but Sotnikova’s scores somehow jumped more than 50 points in about 2months compared to her last competition before Sochi(20 poiont increase in PCS) That's even if it was the Olympics taking place in the home. Vancouver Olympics‘s Joe Annie Rochette did not receive a score on booming like her.

[@nadiarodriguez4834]

"Then Anton did this" ...seriously?! a lot of figure skaters have won the Olympic gold with errors in their programs. Just because you skate a flawless program doesn't mean the gold is secure; it's the quality of the overall elements that make the program a success, and Berezhnaya & Sikarulidze certainly achieve that with their LP.

[@sehayanksezgin9301]

This channel is extremely biased and keeps pushing Western propaganda. What did you expect?

[@eddyzhang4861]

Well, both had the same votes so it is fair

[@musefan9527]

Это был кошмар

[@jenniferstarkey8246]

Jamie and David were FLAWLESS and Marie admitted to cheating. Your bias is showing. Typical Russian BS... reminds me of the current American election climate...

[@cece354]

You obviously don’t know skating. Even a half blind person can feel the emotion of the Canadian pairs. True American Yamakochi did win after falling on her long program.

[@SomeGuyFromOK]

The best part about this is that the judge felt guilty, told about it, the IOC didn't sweep it under the rug, and they gave the gold to BOTH pairs. Hey MLB, THIS is how you handle a cheating scandal.

[@aztronomy7457]

Uhhh. I think you need to understand the situation more. The Olympics didn’t do anything until the FBI finally caught a wiretap. Until then they tried to sweep it.

[@cjb7185]

2:22 . The year is 2020, and if u breath like this on somebody's face, u r jailed.

[@cjb7185]

@jfiowejhfieodjawjtr fjirosjfiosegreh9f u have made 15 comments on this channel and most of them are just hate comments... Good job.

[@cjb7185]

@jfiowejhfieodjawjtr fjirosjfiosegreh9f make that 18 comments and full of hate. Peace.

[@s.montfri4924]

Lol

[@Cybernaut551]

Laughing my mask off!

[@whatwhowhyhow]

I feel bad for the French judge: she was forced by the French Federation, that must have been a really scary experience. Props to her for telling the truth though!

[@mht4908]

She recanted her confession soon after that and she still denies it to this day

[@hihelloannyeong3570]

Since were talking about the winter olympics… wanna talk about how Yuna did not win Sochi 2014???

[@genesis-x4528]

Yes, please!

[@lilipink2408]

Because her program was simple

[@tinderbox218]

Love that this series has absolutely no budget for decent wigs.

[@pjchj3599]

Sochi 2014 same scandal, Yuna Kim is real winner

[@musefan9527]

Мы отомстили за Лену и Антона

[@chummyloki]

No it's not

[@brian5619]

chummyloki give me your defense on why not?

[@user-pv5is2bq1l]

@@chummyloki ABSOLUTELY Yuna is winner

[@bleuc517]

@@chummyloki No It's not 🤣

[@laralovesanimals]

"Canadians did a simple routine" People like me who don't normally watch figure skating: "THATS SIMPLE!?!?!? WHAT"

[@phuongnguyen-mq1dd]

yeah like the canadians did have a simple routine i mean love story?? they should have feel lucky when the judges gave them silver

[@Unfiltered494]

The real scandal of the 2002 Games was how Drobiazko/Vanagas finshed 5th when they should've been 2nd. But unlike the Canadians, they didn't have a big federation to back them and their protest, or make a big media fuss about it.

[@kohlinoor]

Had the French judge not come forward with the truth, do you think the Canadian federation's protest would have made a difference?

[@elliebellie7816]

Yes, they were such good skaters and always my favorites. I always felt they got robbed by getting 5th.

[@cesarabrahamcastanedavalen3788]

They remain their dignity, respect to them.

[@michaelxz1305]

the real scandal is that figure skating has been ruined forever as nobody can enjoy watching with the new judging system

[@extra_ice_girl]

@@michaelxz1305 I like how Scott Hamilton tried to blame the downfall on the Harding Kerrigan scandal. No Scott, it's because the scoring system is too hard to follow.

[@Ketroc]

The wig in that reenactment was more real than the acting.

[@cj222100]

Gee, I had no idea that the figure skating judges were so famous that they just HAD to recreate their hairstyles with terrible wigs so we'd be clear on who the dramatization was about.

[@xPastelxKittiesx]

Do Sochi next!

[@minibuffon1]

'they opted for a simpler routine'..... end up doing some crazy ice dance moves

[@dudovakaja]

Fun fact! Didier Gailhaguet (the person behind the scandal) is still a big man in today's figure skating...why?

[@letgo2217]

Didier must have some dirt on the ISU. No reason for him to not have been banned from the sport permanently after what he pulled in Salt Lake.

[@jjh2456]

Well this comment hasn’t aged well.

[@Blanka1100]

The real scandal was Canadian Worlds gold in 2001 at their home ice. Besides, Jamie and David did their old "Love Story" program at the Olimpics. Elena and Anton came with something new and the artictic side was much better.

[@annaliese9453]

EXACTLY!!

[@franciscotoro9454]

Yes, something new indeed, a friendly judge and a rigged contest. Well done!

[@yuna-mc7im]

while you’re at it, do the sochi scandal too! Give back Yuna’s gold medal

[@whitecat3923]

👍🏼👍🏼

[@lilipink2408]

Adelina was stronger

[@whitecat3923]

@@lilipink2408 🙈ABSOLUTELY NO!!!! 👎🏼👎🏼

[@lilipink2408]

@@whitecat3923 her jumps were better

[@stanbabymetal458]

@@lilipink2408 do your eyes work? her jumps were not better in any way (they also weren't better than carolina kostner who rightfully deserved silver)

[@SlendysWatchingMe]

Some days I can't believe the six point scoring system was in place so long... There's still corruption, but at least judges can't basically choose the winners arbitrarily anymore.

[@xxwhispersxx2856]

Ha that’s not true tho.

[@whitecat3923]

@@xxwhispersxx2856 Argumentos por favor!!😉

[@amyparker9816]

@@whitecat3923 Sotnikova winning over Yuna Kim.

[@JustCallMeAnnie]

Great video!

[@bklyn11217]

This scandal ended the golden era that figure skating had been riding on since Lillehammer. The second gold medal was a mistake. Even without the French judge's scores, using tiebreak rules, the Russians would have still won. The scandal wasn't that the Canadians didn't get a gold in the first place, it was that they got one at all.

[@johannagreen3546]

bklyn11217 agree! Their program was boring!

[@erinpeacexo1854]

I agree with you. Even with a slight error from the Russians, their program was still better and technically more difficult than the Canadians. Sale and Peltier were boring. Believe me, I'm not a big fan of the Russians. There was corruption in Sochi when Sotnikiva won gold. That was ridiculous. It should have gone to Yuna Kim.

[@unknowny_you]

So you could say the silver era ended with Sochi? With Yuna being robbed by ISU and gave gold to Sotnikova?

[@tigremalabarista3461]

That’s what they used to try and cover up the cheating actually. They knew artistic was the tiebreaker after Baiul, who double footed a landing, won over a cleaner Kerrigan. The sad part is both these scandals (which ironically featured the judge from France) lead to a Kerrigan then Sale and Pettier to quit competing.

[@sarahtallane7666]

when I first read the title, I thought the video will discussed Sochi scandal

[@LordSuperAstro]

"computer will randomly select" ... well I can see this being exploited quite easily too

[@nimidobro]

in my opinion, it's not fair that you presented it this way. it seems as anton made this huge no-no, and we can all see that canadians made a HUGE error in their first performance. so i think that overall it was fair for russians to win gold, and canadians silver (i mean it's the olympic silver, it's freaking awesome) there was so much more unfairness in the olympics, but usually towards countries that can't back themselves up with over-the-top politics and media involment, so i guess no one cares about that

[@revjim77]

You also don’t care that that the Russian and French Judges were compromised.

[@rian4104]

@@revjim77 Based on what evidence? Words alone? What strange is a judge of olympic level destroyed her reputations overnight by admitting fraud. If a person lies/corrupted then he/she will protect it to the end, devil don't turn into saint overnight. And how can russia federation could influence french federation to vote for them when culturlarly french are very close to canada? What more make sense is french federation helps canada by making up lies. This is all part of western agenda to demonize russia. US in particular need western europe to hate russia so they can maintain dependency on US.

[@michaelxz1305]

it's not easy to know who should have won because the program admitted the Canadians chose an easy program

[@aztronomy7457]

@@rian4104 based on evidence from a wiretap and admission of guilt.

[@franciscotoro9454]

There may be doubt of the outcome, but since the game was rigged, it is only speculation. Whomever won should have done so without such a shadow over them. In fact, the Russian pair, if they had any integrity, they should have returned the medals as they were not obtained legitimately, regardless of whether they did or did not know. Now every time they look at those medals they will not be sure if they actually earned it or not, thus even though gold, they will look tarnished.

[@nc8414]

Elizabeth Manley should have won gold in 1988 too. Her program was technically much more difficult and Witt was given it I think bc of her name,

[@rissa_x]

these wigs are horrendous

[@imcskchannel2864]

🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@brittanys1997]

I can't believe they got Lady Gaga to do the reenactment. Did Ryan Murphy direct this??

[@drnogueiras8783]

Hey, gotta give that French judge credit for speaking up at the very least. I don’t think most would have after it was already presumably a “done deal”. It clearly wasn’t the first time judges had agreed to “exchange” votes, and obviously nobody else’s conscience had won out before. She probably destroyed her career, and she *certainly* tarnished her name forever to right that wrong. I wonder if the female skater (Sale? I’m sorry, first time hearing of this) hadn’t shown as much emotion and the male skater hadn’t immediately waved the results off as BS, if she would’ve felt as guilty... I also wonder if she had a few drinks at the lobby bar. I can see both things getting to me.

[@SarahB1863]

The French judge likely confessed because she knew eventually she'd be caught. A LOT of people were angry about what happened and the IOC was vigorously investigating. By coming clean she probably saved herself at least some grief.

[@linusfotograf]

Reenactment budget: minus 1000 $

[@bezymjannaja]

I see that anyone here does not understand that there is a difficulty in the program... If you done simpliest program clear and you've done difficult with a little mark it is still not the same. This is an example when politic goes to the sport. This is a scam and chinese couple with bronze where totally right to not join this circus. If russins couple would not join than you would say that canadians totally win that.

[@xxwhispersxx2856]

Even with the error that Anton mad, in today's scoring system, Anton and Elena still would have won while Jamie and David still would have been second.

[@Royelsworth]

Excep Elena varishnia also made a mistake on the throw triple that was 2 mistakes and Nancy Kerrigan said there were several mistakes the Russians

[@Inferno-Dante]

@@Royelsworth Canadians fell

[@streptococcus1]

That was stupid decision ever in Olympics history. Sikharulidze & Berezhnaya's routine was more difficult. If they were judged like today it would be evident.

[@aramis9915]

Russia was the unique winner !!

[@virginiajackson5620]

When is the Sochi one coming out?

[@FusionGamerElite]

You want scandal? Try the european guy who touched 1st and STILL they gave the gold medal to Phelps a few years ago!

[@doctorjoy2688]

why did they do that?

[@JK-gu3tl]

Calling BS on this.

[@1wingedangel597]

I don’t think so. They are sensor touch. So Phelp won.

[@anonymous2010116]

Another scandal for kim yuna and adelina. Kim yuna should have won the gold in 2014. Just like anton over here, adelina fumbled. It's 2019 already, and the past remains present to us.

[@cesarabrahamcastanedavalen3788]

It's an sporting competition, the fact is that soccer audiences take defeats more maturely than Yuna's fans.

[@krisaaron5771]

Corrupt judging hurts the athletes, who suffer the most!

[@zombiehorsefranzferdinand9304]

That whole judges decision table leaves me suspicious. Besides France all the western countries chose Canada and all the Eastern chose Russia

[@backtothefuture4]

We learn from our faults...Adelnina Sotnikova *laughs*

[@BekC]

I cant stop watching these

[@singing4hope]

I’m glad the French judge has a conscience

[@lutz84]

I think the new scoring system would place Elena and Anton on top … the step out is certainly worthy of deductions but element by element they are stronger - love story was the first program Jamie and David skated when they got together and while I love the program I don’t feel it’s as intricately woven together

[@Inferno-Dante]

They definitely had a better program than Canadians. Plus they did NOT fall. Your performance is from the time you step on ice until you leave the arena. That fall at the end of the program, although juvenile, counts. Cannot be Gold medalists with a fall, unless everyone else also fell.

[@goldburnm]

This is some nice revisionist history. The Russians are a legendary pair. The Canadians should have gotten silver or bronze in 2001 and silver in 2002. Their basic skating and the intricacy of the programs are not comparable.

[@advancedtaxonomy1132]

goldburnm i lol'ed at the "sale & pelletier were the pair to beat" part. sure, s/b hadn't exactly been consistent in the quad leading up to slc but they were still (rightly) considered the best in the world at that point

[@terra5491]

It is obvious for anyone who has eyes that the Russian pair was superiour. And it was the Russian pair who was robbed. With or without that strange judge the Russian couple got the first place. Watch programms again!

[@chrislee4367]

BIASeD

[@terra5491]

@@chrislee4367 may be. But go, please to those videos and read comments. Most people agree, even some Canadians, that Russian couple was the best and with today's score system Canadians were not even close. If you stop thinking about them as an "evil Russians" and look at them as just you look at e new couple may be you also will stop being biased and would see they had that nobody had. People even commentators said they are their own class.

[@MadameChristie]

It doesnt matter bc in the end a judge was bought. Doesnt matter whos better, just that the Russians cheated.

[@kazy8029]

Eh...I remember watching this live as a kid and being confused to why Russia won. They were incredible but Canada did just a bit better.

[@undefeated_romantic1692]

@@kazy8029 , they FELL in the SP. Is it OK to you? Canadians didn't deserve gold.

[@franciscotoro9454]

It is a total disgrace that the Russian pair were allowed to keep their medal. It shows just how ball-less the IOC president was. Any honest person would have disqualified the Russian and French figure skating teams on the spot. Instead they make it look like they did the Canadians a favour.

[@whiterose7487]

the reenactment makes this sm better

[@walterfielding9079]

At least nobody lost a kneecap

[@scotth6814]

This has been going on for a LONG time. It's only now that they got caught.

[@otvirani]

Love the acting of the judge actors!

[@SquirrelTrapper]

This is why the old system was so awful. Mind boggling that a small bobble on a jump should be the deciding factor between a program that was much more complex with much higher GOEs and PCS and a garbage juvenile program that was supposedly clean (it wasn't, there were tons of prerotated and underrotated elements)

[@mkane1984]

That reenactment and those wigs is the biggest scandal in this video!

[@pulpfan8027]

now do a similar one about Sochi scandal

[@artemis2666]

Ooof.... that wig in the re enactment is something else 🤣

[@lightsonicspeed4]

2:46 I love this sound... don't call me weird!

[@mkim0713]

So where is next? Sochi scandal should be here.

[@chozo1325]

The ISU and RUSFED would come and pull a Kerrigan kneecapping on the Olympic channel lmao

[@prodbyevadwave]

I love the classical music!

[@wylancantreadthis951]

Now do Sochi😄

[@rainestillreign3634]

yuna kim join the chat.

[@lilipink2408]

Yes, Mao Asada deserved gold medal in 2010

[@stanbabymetal458]

@@lilipink2408 mao messed up, yuna didn't lmao. mao rightfully deserved silver, however, i do think she deserved to medal at sochi.

[@nemesis3263]

Это не первый случай,где люди с ошибками выигрывали

[@Derk01]

Not the first time Russia has been accused of sca days either haha

[@nitratka]

Я помню,смотрела,там много на той олимпиаде было.И в шорт треке тоже.

[@CarlitosJS]

And Yuna Kim at Sochi 2014

[@olgalitvinenko4589]

Наши, Сихарулидзе и Бережная на две головы выше всех. Не прощу канадцам, такой праздник испортили. Не допустимое судейство. Никаких эмоций программа канадцев, кроме изжоги не вызывала. Жуть, вот так по носу всех. Все продается и все покупается и не только в фигурном катании. Стыдно господа.

[@phil-zz5hk]

figure skating has always been subjective . one mans salt is another mans pepper . look at torville and dean .

[@Derk01]

Looks to me like someone spiked the salt eh?

[@hoizhockaaut-gamingundco6341]

What is the name of the music of the beginning of this video?

[@ryanje8147]

Lol. Those silly skating judges. You never know what craziness they will get up to next. 😁😁

[@wendyokoopa7048]

Sadly Salé and Pelletier the couple at the height of the scandal have since divorced but continue to co-parent their child. Pelletier is currently dating Ekaterina gordeeva(yes Sergi's first and only love) and Jamie is married to Craig Simpson.

[@Klymenthis]

Doesn’t “simpler routine” imply the Canadian routine was worth fewer points overall? So that even with a minor mistake the Russian pair could win fairly with their higher presentation scores? And the fact that the Canadians had a larger mistake in their sp when the Russians skated theirs cleanly? Plus the Canadian free skate was not original to the season - while you can skate old routines isn’t it kind of accepted that they can be score lower that an original? Like how the video totally ignores the giant North American media campaign that created the controversy. The Canadian pair played it safe with their routine and lost on presentation as a result - it’s poor sportsmanship on their behalf to behave that way during a medal ceremony and poor sportsmanship to even accept the offered joint gold. The Russians should have been offered the Pierre de Coubertin medal for accepting a joint gold with grace despite having won fairly.

[@novascotiaskater1868]

NO skating an previous routine is NOT a reason to get lower scores, and the Canadian program was equal if not better then the Russian team, ..... the Canadian team was flawless in the FP

[@lexiesutton7930]

The Russians were caught cheating with the French that's not politics that's​ cold hard facts, normally they would probably have been stripped of their medals.

[@kae2501]

Back under the 6.0 system, "simpler" wasn't necessarily a bad thing. A graceful program in which the elements were completed successfully, and which had artistry and resonated with the audience, was a successful program. There were clearly some issues with that old system, but honestly every time a skater falls or stumbles attempting to complete a difficult element under the current system, and outscores skaters who did not fall, I sort of miss 6.0.

[@sgeetha7350]

It wasn't the Russian skater's fault at all! They did their best, albeit the 'small' mistake that Anton did with the jump.Their skating is superior to S&P in every aspect. Why should they be stripped of their medal? That's utter nonsense! Also their program was much harder than S&P. If we are talking about mistakes, S&P's mistake in the short is 'bigger' than Anton's. The Chinese pair should have been second instead after the short.

[@user-do8bz7fe1v]

Russia also stole Yuna's gold medal too!!

[@reveluv5530]

김현아 oh yes russia did..... it was even proven

[@lyne3783]

BLR*Kinga wow using racist... how educated.

[@viktoria8189]

In Vancouver, Canada gave Kim the shittiest artistic scores in SP because there was a slight chance for their Canadian skater, but she flopped in FP so they didn't have any reasons to not give Kim normal in SP. Like, let's just say that if the skater is not ideal, home country of the Olympic games will always do it. I will not even speak about USA Olympics...overscoring there was always laughable. Hopefully, judging system will be changed in some way.

[@thayrathyn]

Proven? Where? How? Was there official research conducted? It was not, stop spreading bullsh*t

[@lilielize2276]

@Nacho Nacho hi Xenon drinkers' fan

[@cesarabrahamcastanedavalen3788]

Machiavelli works even in Olympics: There is none comparison between the russian artistic and technical level and the others, but in politics the theatrics and manipulations.

[@sacknasenflote6074]

Does anyone know the name of the song(?) at 0:05

[@honey4295]

i need the sochi version of this cheating documentary

[@colors7930]

Imagine having to deal with an abusive partner since you were 14, a partner who almost killed you in an "accident". So, you recover and start skating again, with another partner, after a few years together, you are praised for your talent and perfect technique. You arrive at the Olympics to finally win your well-deserved gold medal, just to have to share it, because of the bad sportsmanship and lack of ethics of a certain canadian pair, like, Elena Berezhnaya didn't deserve this. Ekaterina Gordeeva said herself, that the only ones who could have competed as equals, against her and Sergey G., were Berezhnaya and Sikharulidze, because they had everything technical, harmony, chemistry, their synchronization was incomparable. The seemingly "perfect jumps" and "complicated lifts" of the other pair are nothing.

[@OMGemgc]

How about the 2014 Sochi scandal? Sotnikova robbed Yuna's gold.

[@amandine2239]

No comparaison. B&S would have won under new COP and without French judge’s vote B&S would have won due to tie breaker bcz they won the short program. 2014 was blatant, obvious robbery.

[@advancedtaxonomy1132]

well i wish this video mentioned that the french judge has maintained she was innocent throughout the years. even last year she gave an interview about how she was turned into a scapegoat for a result that displeased the north american skating community. it was honestly disgraceful the way north american media spun the narrative against berezhnaya/sikharulidze even before they took the ice. it's also ridiculous how sale/pelletier, all these years later, still keep playing the victim card "we were robbed of a full olympic gold medal experience" when it was s/b whose rightful victory was invalidated at every turn by a biased media

[@MsRumex]

yeh, and also french ice dance pair, who won gold in their discipline also got mixed up in this mess((((.

[@Marina-pe1gx]

Dat reenactment doe. Hahaha

[@Wolfen443]

Lets put it this way, scoring in figure skating has always been bias, but to the credit of the Russians their performance was more difficult. And mow with secret scoring and a base scoring no one is able to blame anyone else for being bias?. How does that change the original problem at all?.

[@makshay]

These kind of things are not the things of past, they still happen to this day. Specially in amature Boxing.

[@rayterra4632]

It make me sick how your channel hides the facts. If you just google this scandal, you can find the page in Wikipedia that says: "in a later signed statement Le Gougne denied taking part in such a deal and also stated that she had truly believed the Russian pair deserved to win". But you didn't mention that.

[@Skorrigan]

And that is certainly true because Wiki says so. Don't be ridiculous.

[@JennaLeigh]

Yes, because Wikipedia is the be all end all for truth. If you're so disgusted, you're free to not watch. You won't be noticed.

[@jhakenugueras3597]

The Sochi please.

[@Cybernaut551]

This where my childhood started.

[@user-cd4ki4dd1u]

기술적으로나 예술적으로나 러시아팀이 훯씬뛰어납니다 캐나팀과는 비교가 안되는 경기였죠 작은 실수를 꼬투리잡아 자기들이 금메달감인양 금에달 달라고 징징대는 꼴이 어이없네요 금에달구걸하는 꼬락서니하고는

[@elenaseara9266]

Do the yuna kim and sotnikova scandal next

[@user-tb3dy1zw6c]

2004, Athens, Nemov - worst scandal ever

[@Daria-ii5wd]

그리고 그 12년 후에..(아오 빡쳐)

[@bpdynasty9265]

As much as I love figure skating, it hands down has one of the WORST judging systems of any sport...then and now! smh

[@FeelGoodOK]

Corruption everywhere...

[@geisavaleria6295]

Cadê as legendas em português BR????

[@CeleTheRef]

thumbs up just for the guy in a judge wig!

[@_luigigonzalez]

Was the dramatic reenactment done by REELZ?

[@frankplechaty3415]

love watching Olympic Games

[@Sagar-wn1po]

In wrestling Rio Olympics 2016, Russia got silver and India got bronze. Later on, Russian got failed in dope test meaning stripping off the silver medal and bronze medalist to be promoted to silver. But Indian bronze medalist denied this because Russian had died in road accident by then and it felt wrong to take medal from his family.

[@user-tt6mg8hl9k]

한국어자막은 딴영상에 있던데 왜이건없나요