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Keith McCord ReportingFour years ago during the Salt Lake games, there were increasing allegations of bad judging in the Ice Skating pairs competition. The story was getting bigger by the hour.
"And how can you guarantee skaters, fans and Olympic officials that you once and for all will take care of this?"
The ice skating pairs controversy was now getting heated. With more and more pressure for an investigation, reporters grilled International Skating Union officials and others who maintained they didn't have enough evidence to investigate whether the judging was fair.
As for the skaters involved, the Canadian and Russian teams, they stayed out of the fray and continued to be gracious.
All media outlets were on the skating story, but Sports Illustrated had another huge project in Salt Lake. The magazine published a special Olympics edition each day with 70,000 copies, that was sold at all of the sporting venues.
Sports Illustrated no doubt wrote about the berets, which Day 6 were still selling like hot cakes. People lined up at the Roots stores at the Gateway before sun-up. It would take just a few minutes before this days' shipment was sold out.
