<Tr> <Td> Presentation </Td> <Td> 5.8 </Td> <Td> 5.8 </Td> <Td> 5.9 </Td> <Td> 5.8 </Td> <Td> 5.8 </Td> <Td> 5.9 </Td> <Td> 5.8 </Td> <Td> 5.9 </Td> <Td> 5.9 </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> Placement </Td> <Td> </Td> <Td> </Td> <Td> </Td> <Td> </Td> <Td> </Td> <Td> </Td> <Td> </Td> <Td> </Td> <Td> </Td> </Tr> <P> During the live broadcast, both the American (NBC Sports' Tom Hammond, Scott Hamilton and Sandra Bezic) and Canadian (CBC Sports' Paul Martini and Barbara Underhill) television commentators proclaimed that Salé and Pelletier had won as they finished, and expressed outrage when the judges' marks were announced . </P> <P> There was immediate suspicion of cheating, according to ABC's Good Morning America and USA Today . Judges from Russia, the People's Republic of China, Poland, Ukraine, and France had placed the Russians first; judges from the United States, Canada, Germany, and Japan chose the Canadians . Suspicion fell quickly on the French judge, Marie - Reine Le Gougne . </P>

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