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Their off-the-ice partnership is more suited to today's silver screen. Pelletier divorced his wife and last year moved in with Sale. And though they decline to discuss their romantic relationship, fans have caught flashes of it. After Sale bobbled at the recent Canadian championships, Pelletier had a full-blown tantrum that left Sale in tears. He later told the press he owed her an apology...
...they make their decisions? Unlike in other sports, technical prowess counts for only so much. Winning is largely a matter of style. Evaluating the finer points of a skater's presentation, such as poise and emotive display, is subjective territory. But it could mean the difference between gold and silver, as Nancy Kerrigan learned in 1994, when judges ranked her flawless performance at Lillehammer behind Oksana Baiul's slightly flawed but more exuberant and stylish...
Especially nowadays, I want results. Gold, silver or bronze. No tin, no plastic. None of that mystery alloy the government uses in those oddly light, play-money quarters it has been minting...
...Congress to vote on campaign-finance legislation or sitting through a year of Enron hearings to find out whether the poker-faced Ken Lay is history's biggest con man or sorriest dupe. It was nip and tuck there for a while before Bode Miller finally took the silver in the men's combined downhill, but only for a while...
...that their big moment was lost amid yet another judging dispute. But the few technical mistakes Yelena and Anton made in their program--however slight--were unfortunately still mistakes. So, watching it on television, I was both surprised and not surprised when Jamie and David were given the silver. I thought: "Here we go again. That's figure skating...