[url=]http://www.cbc.ca/olympics/news/legougne020223[/url]
Altho she signed a statement stating that she was pressured by the French Skating Federation to vote for Russia she now claims that the Canadians scrambled her little brain so badly she blamed the wrong people for getting her to cheat. She now claims that she meant to vote for the Russians and was pressured by the Canadians.

[url=]http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=68&u=/nyt/20020224/ts_nyt/french_judge_says_pressure_was_from_canada[/url]

"Over the next 24 hours, Le Gougne said she was physically accosted by an unknown person on the arena floor, verbally attacked by Walburga Grimm, a member of the technical committee, on the shuttle bus to her hotel and again by Stapleford in the hotel lobby.

Le Gougne said Stapleford "aggressively approached me" and said, " `Marie, you're a very, very good judge. Why did you score the Russians first?' "

Le Gougne said she was at the breaking point and began to cry. Stapleford, Le Gougne said, began to "take advantage of my emotional situation" and verbally began constructing a scenario to explain why Le Gougne had voted for the Russians: the French federation had pressured her to vote against the Canadians."
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Fortunately she has come clean now to reveal the "true story" [>:/]