Jamie Salé (b. 1977) was Canada's sweetheart during the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City, where she and her partner (and future husband) David Pelletier competed in pairs skating.
In the finals, Salé and Pelletier skated what most observers considered the best performance, and they were expected to be rewarded with gold medals. But surprisingly, the judges instead gave the gold to a Russian pair, Elena Berezhnaya and Anton Sikharulidze. A wave of outrage ensued among American and Canadian commentators.
Then — scandal! One of the judges, from France, admitted to Olympics officials that she had been pressured to give the Russians gold, in exchange for a pledged Russian vote a few days later for the French ice dancing team. Under pressure, the IOC decided to award both the Canadian and Russian teams gold medals, achieving a certain detente. The scoring system for pairs skating was reformed to reduce the chance of another scandal.
Jamie Salé, who was cute as hell, could have been Canada's favorite ice princess for the rest of her life. Unfortunately, she became an antivaxx and general right-wing conspiracy theorist, which has thrown away much of the goodwill left over from 2002.
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