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On February 11, 2002 the figure skating competition had been narrowed down so that the Russian team was in close competition with the Canadian team. For the last 38 years, RussiaÆs figure skating teams have won the gold medals during the Winter Olympics. However, many observers assumed after watching the competition that the Canadian team had won the competition, yet it was the Russian team that received the higher marks and won the gold medal (Zeigler, 2002). It is at this point that the different news agencies record several different versions according to their point of view, and so influence the observer on how to judge the outcome of the event.

One point of view that was recorded that night was from the Canadian Broadcasting Company (CBC). According to their report, ôthe Russian pair. . . turned in a less than perfect performance û and were still awarded higher marks than th

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sserting that NBC had the final decision over what the Olympic judges decided and that the ôscandal [was] only a scandal because the American papers decided it wasö (p. 1). He contends, furthermore, that the French judge was merely a scapegoat because France is not a big contender in the ice skating competition and because of the public outcry against the outcome of the competition. He also points out that while he was actually at the competition and could see little difference between the two performances, American television has made it appear as if ôSale and Pelletier lost to a couple of clumsy idiots who could hardly stand upö (2002, p. 1). Additionally, officials from both France and Russia appeared to have a different opinion of what actually happened. According to the CNN World News Service, where the polls in North America showed a 96% approval rate for awarding the Canadian pair with a second gold medal, the polls in Russia run just the opposite (Chance, 2002). Russians seem to view incident as proof that Westerners are spoiled and poor losers. One man interviewed stated that, "to even raise this question, to doubt a judge's decision, that's not acceptable for modern people. . .We are supposed to be civilizedö (
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