Skategate

Will "Skategate" finally cause the sport to clean up its act?

Our Sport Has Gangrene 2007

Skategate is exactly the kind of scandal -- un-American with Russian mobsters and French bureaucrats (who not only cheat, but probably don't support the American war effort) -- that Americans detest.

Starr Gazing: The Problem With Figure Skating 2007

Whether our taste runs to emphera like Skategate or end-times shenanigans like the Bush-Cheney energy policy, it's all good.

Corruption: A Spectator Sport 2007

Stuff like Skategate is as much a national pastime as baseball, sitcoms and the consumption of fast food, which are also endlessly new yet endlessly predictable.

Corruption: A Spectator Sport 2007

JEANNE MESERVE, CNN ANCHOR: And now to the Winter Olympics scandal we've come to know as Skategate.

CNN Transcript Feb 16, 2002 2002

PAULA ZAHN, CNN ANCHOR: And if you thought the Skategate scandal at the 2002 Winter Olympics couldn't get any stranger, wait until you hear this.

CNN Transcript Aug 1, 2002 2002

It took five days, but it appears that Skategate in Salt Lake is now winding down.

CNN Transcript Feb 15, 2002 2002

MILES O'BRIEN, CNN ANCHOR: Now let's go back to Skategate, as they're calling it.

CNN Transcript Feb 16, 2002 2002

But as far as media hype is concerned, this much I'm sure of, Howie, more Americans are concerned about the -- what do they call it, Skategate or whatever it is?

CNN Transcript Feb 17, 2002 2002

We've had "Skategate" and "Spygate," but it was only a matter of time before a sporting controversy was labelled "Ballsgate."

The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed PAU L ATTFIELD 2011