From the time he answered a question about judging problems at the news conference following Monday night’s final, Canadian pairs skater David Pelletier has been a font of wit and good sportsmanship.
On what he felt after being placed second:
“What I can’t control, I can’t control. If I didn’t want this to happen, I would have gone down the hill on skis.”
His feelings Friday until learning about the second gold medal:
“The way I was starting to feel about the whole thing, I wanted to go down the skeleton ride without a helmet. Now I will put the helmet on.”
On whether he expected the situation would be so quickly resolved:
“We had no idea. There was a matter in synchronized swimming (involving the award of a second gold) that should have been fixed in 15 minutes but took a year. I was expecting this to go on and on.”
On what he and Jamie Sale will have to do with the silver medals awarded Monday:
“We do hope we get the bronze, too, so we can have the entire collection.”
On whether one could justify the Russians’ victory:
“You can argue all your life about both styles of skating. You can argue about what happened that night. You cannot argue against the fact that there was something going on with the judges.”
On whether the story is over:
“The case is solved for us. The case is not solved for figure skating.”
