Yelena Berezhnaya

…were lower 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…

…program, scored lower 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…

…gold with the Russian pair, Yelena Berezhnaya and Anton Sikharulidze.