Pairs Skating

Near the end of Friday night's Opening Ceremony for the 19th Winter Olympics, in a protocol-mandated segment called "Symbol of Peace," the cellist Yo-Yo Ma and the singer Sting performed a song he had popularized titled, "Fragile." The evocative sound of...

A figure skating controversy that threatens to engulf the Olympic Winter Games intensified Wednesday when details of a French judge's alleged misconduct came to light. Marie Reine Le Gougne told fellow members of the pairs judging panel Monday that she...

The International Skating Union admitted Wednesday it has been investigating possible irregularities in the judging of the Olympic pairs figure skating because the event's referee brought those possibilities to the attention of ISU President Ottavio...

The Canadian Olympic Association is turning to an international mediator in its quest to have have a gold medal awarded to Jamie Sale and David Pelletier, who lost in the pairs skating competition to the Russian team on Monday. A hearing in the matter...

To the thunderous explosion of a massive fireworks display that dappled the colors of the rainbow on the snow-capped mountains of the Wasatch Range, the XIXth Olympic Winter Games drew to a close Sunday night, an Olympics notable for judging controversies...