All figure skating events in 2002 Winter Olympics were held at the Salt Lake Ice Center. Medal summary Medal table Medalists Results Men Medals awarded Thursday, February 14, 2002 Yagudin received 5.9s and 6.0s for his free skating after World Champion Plushenko had made several errors in both the short program and the free skating. Referee: Sally-Anne Stapleford Assistant Referee: Junko Hiramatsu Judges: Wendy Langton Merja Kosonen Janet Allen Nicolae Bellu Yuri Kliushnikov Volker Waldeck Alexander Penchev Mieko Fujimori Evgenia Bogdanova Jarmila Portová (substitute) Ladies Medals awarded Thursday, February 21, 2002 Hughes, fourth after the short program, skated a clean free skating with seven triple jumps, including two triple-triple combinations. Kwan led after the short program but slipped to third after two jumping errors. Sasha Cohen finished fourth, after a fall on the back end of a triple lutz-triple toe combination. Slutskaya became only the second Russian to medal in the ladies' event at the Olympics. Hughes and Slutskaya finished with tie scores, Hughes winning the gold medal on a tiebreaker for having won the free skating. The Russian officials were very disappointed with the result and filed a protest, which was not accepted by ISU after it examined all results and scores, thus confirming Hughes as the winner. Referee: Britta Lindgren Assistant Referee: Charles Foster Judges: Sissy Krick Tatiana Danilenko Maria Hrachovcova Ingelise Blangsted Paolo Pizzocari Irina Absaliamova Pekka Leskinen Deborah Islam Joseph Inman Vladislav Petukov (substitute) Pairs Medals awarded February 11, 2002; second award ceremony February 17. A controversial decision was taken which extended the Russian dominance of pair skating at the Olympics. In the first week of the Games, a controversy in the pairs' figure skating competition culminated in the French judge's scores being thrown out and the Canadian team of Jamie Salé and David Pelletier being awarded a gold medal (together with the Russians who were controversially awarded gold previously and kept their medals despite the allegations of vote swapping and buying the votes of the French judge). Allegations of bribery were leveled against many ice-skating judges, leading to the arrest of known criminal Alimzhan Tokhtakhounov in Italy (at the request of the United States). He was released by the Italian officials. Judges from Russia, the People's Republic of China, Poland, Ukraine, and France placed the Russians first; judges from the United States, Canada, Germany, and Japan gave the nod to the Canadians. The International Skating