Editing 2002 Winter Olympics (section)

===Pairs figure skating judging controversy===
{{Main|2002 Winter Olympics figure skating scandal}}
A major scandal emerged during the [[Figure skating at the 2002 Winter Olympics|pairs figure skating competition]]; the Canadian pair of [[Jamie Salé]] and [[David Pelletier]] narrowly lost to the Russian pair of [[Elena Berezhnaya]] and [[Anton Sikharulidze]], despite the Canadians being deemed the favorites to win after their free skate program. The French judge [[Marie-Reine Le Gougne]] alleged that the head of the [[French Federation of Ice Sports]], [[Didier Gailhaguet]], had pressured her to judge the competition in favor of Russia regardless of performance. Amid criticisms of the incident by both Canadian and American media outlets, and suspicions that this was part of a [[vote swapping]] scheme with Russia to benefit the French ice dance team, the [[International Skating Union]] (ISU) voted to suspend Le Gougne for failing to immediately inform officials of Gailhaguet's actions. They also recommended to the IOC that the gold medal be jointly awarded to both pairs. An IOC panel voted in favor of the motion, resulting in both Salé and Pelletier, as well as Berezhnaya and Sikharulidze, being jointly awarded gold medals.<ref>{{cite magazine|last=Swift|first=E. M.|date=February 25, 2002|title=Thorny Issue|url=https://vault.si.com/vault/2002/02/25/thorny-issue-canadian-pair-david-pelletier-and-jamie-sale-got-belated-gold-even-as-a-judging-scandal-so-shook-the-sport-that-it-brought-talk-of-long-overdue-reform|magazine=Sports Illustrated|access-date=August 20, 2021|archive-date=March 12, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230312044551/https://vault.si.com/vault/2002/02/25/thorny-issue-canadian-pair-david-pelletier-and-jamie-sale-got-belated-gold-even-as-a-judging-scandal-so-shook-the-sport-that-it-brought-talk-of-long-overdue-reform|url-status=live}}</ref><ref name="Reaction2">{{cite news|last=Sandomir|first=Richard|date=February 19, 2002|title=As the Story Unfolds, NBC Has the Biggest Part|work=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2002/02/19/sports/sports-media-as-the-story-unfolds-nbc-has-the-biggest-part.html|access-date=August 20, 2021|archive-date=April 16, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170416045518/http://www.nytimes.com/2002/02/19/sports/sports-media-as-the-story-unfolds-nbc-has-the-biggest-part.html|url-status=live}}</ref>