>Right. But to what/whose end? Seems to me the Russians have a stake in this too. And that would be so regardless of which side started the skulduggery.
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>I guess it's possible that the French did this expecting the Russians to agree and got surprised when they didn't. But then they (the French committee)surely would have called the crooked judge off, telling her to judge fairly.
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>And regardless... given what the French judge admitted to to several people, even if she is now denying all, what would be the problem, if the other judges are fair, to replace the Russian judge anyway? And the French one too, if there is one?

I'm not saying the Russians didn't have a hand in this. IMO, under the circumstances, they did the best they could. I read several reports that said the Canadians should never have gotten gold. I also read others that said what you are saying and still others that said the decision was right.

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>By the way, the facilities, the scenery and the crowds are all looking spectacular on TV.

Thanks...I think people can see why I like it here so much. I was downtown near Olympic square on Saturday. It was extremely crowded. I think it was estimated the crowd to be around 100,000. When we got home and turned on the local news on TV, they were asking people to not go downtown because of the crowds.