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I don’t know if anyone’s heard, but Canadian figure skaters Jamie Sale and David Pelletier have been forced to share their gold medal in pairs figure skating with another pair from Russia. This really whips my cream!
—Don’t even get me started
This article appears in Mar 5-11, 2009.
8 Comments
Sharing a gold metal removes value not only from the prize, but the integrity of the competition. We have judges for a reason, not so that they can spread the “everyone wins” bullshit attitude they learned in kindergarten.
I’m not a fan of figure skating, or sports in general, but that really sucks.
Rofl this happened in 2002. Where have you been.
Once I found out that ‘Gold medals’ were not made out of Gold. I stopped ever wanting to have one. I mean WTF, you work & train your ass of for a chance to compete…& if you win you get a silver medal with gold plating.
So they share the medal…big deal.
Russians always get away with everything. It’s the death stares.
Well we know how you feel but what would Brian Boitano do if he were here right now?
He’d make a plan and he’d follow through,
THAT’S what Brian Boitano’d do.
Jessica Dube is hot.
zZz, you just made my day.