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COPYRIGHT 2002 All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission of The Condé Nast Publications Inc.
The Canadians may not have broken many records at the Salt Lake City Olympics, but they did do something more difficult: they smashed their national image. As everybody knows by now, the Canadian pairs ice-skating team of Jamie Sale and David Pelletier outskated the Russian team but were awarded the silver medal because a French judge threw her vote. Those of us with a weakness for French women -- and certainly the most unforgettable figure of these Games was that skater in the Coke commercial who murmured, ravishingly, "mon coeur" -- recall that in France a judge can also be an investigator, and is supposed to have arbitrary opinions. Nevertheless, the Canadians screamed bloody murder and...
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