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CNN Sunday Morning

Controversy on Ice

Aired February 17, 2002 - 10:16   ET

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MILES O'BRIEN, CNN ANCHOR: At the Olympics, more controversy on ice. The latest on the speed skating oval where the last lap pileup changed everything. It looked a little bit like the roller derby there. Meanwhile the Canadian figure skaters Jamie Sale and David Pelletier are to get their gold medals tonight with an asterisk, sort of like Roger Maris medals I guess. Rusty Dornin joining us now live from Salt Lake City with more on that.

Rusty, I'd rather just talk more about your F-16 flight, but I guess we've got to move on, don't we?

RUSTY DORNIN, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Yes we do.

O'BRIEN: All right, let's move on.

DORNIN: Miles the speed skating really did resemble the roller derby last night because there were crashes also in the preliminary events. But the big crash that really changed everything for Apolo Anton Ohno was in the finals of the 1,000-meter. He was clearly in the lead, said he was skating the best race of his life when one of the Chinese skaters came up on the outside, sort of jostled him, then on the inside a Korean skater came in and took all three, actually four skaters went flying off, slammed into the board, Ohno did a 360, but quickly got up and sort of struggled to the finish line, put his skate across the line for the silver.

The guy who skated to the gold was the Australian Steven Bradbury who was at the back of the line. He wins the gold for Australia. It's the first Winter Olympic gold medal Australia has ever had. Also in skating as the skating controversy is finally settling down. Tonight marks the second gold medal award for the Canadian pair David Pelletier and Jamie Sale. The awards will be given tonight. They were scheduled for next Thursday, but those plans changed sometime yesterday.

Apparently the Russian pair will also be on hand for that. Both flags will be raised. Both anthems will be played. But the Canadians will finally get their gold. They will have to give back their silver, however, and it's unclear exactly what will end up happening to that medal. So an ending to that story that has just topped all other Olympic headlines all week and folks are just glad, I think, to see it get out of the way so they can get on to the other sports and other athletes -- Miles.

O'BRIEN: Rusty, I know you're busy out there. Have you had a chance to see any of this aerial stuff? (UNINTELLIGIBLE)

DORNIN: I've seen some of the -- I've seen the mobile stuff, but ...

O'BRIEN: Yes.

DORNIN: ... I have not seen the other aerial skiing. No.

O'BRIEN: You should try to check that out. We're going to have a little preview right now. As a matter of fact, keep watching CNN for a minute. Don't flip the channel, and you're going to hear a little ...

DORNIN: OK.

O'BRIEN: ... more about it.

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