A major controversy occurred in the figure skating competition at the Salt Lake City 2002 Winter Olympic Games when the Canadian pair Jamie Salé and David Pelletier, who skated a flawless final program, scored lower than Russians Yelena Berezhnaya and Anton Sikharulidze, who had made several errors in their performance. After the competition a judge admitted that she had been coerced into voting for the Russian pair by a skating official but later recanted her story. The resulting uproar from the public and the International Olympic Committee pressured the International Skating Federation to award a second pair of gold medals to the Canadian team.