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Salé's and Pelletier's Love Story
By Tara Kimura, CBC Sports Online

Jamie Salé and David Pelletier went through frustration and several partners before they found each other and a world championship.


A pair pursuing perfection
By Dave Stubbs, Montreal Gazette - Monday, February 4, 2002

Jamie Salé and David Pelletier are taking their fans' high expectations in stride.


Sale and Pelletier seek to end 42-year drought
By Canadian Press - January 22, 2002

The label, Olympic favourites, has been glued to Jamie Sale and David Pelletier, and the pressure to win the biggest meet of them all has caused figure skaters to fall apart in the past.


Sale and Pelletier patch up their differences
By Canadian Press - Saturday, January 12, 2002

The smiles Jamie Sale and David Pelletier display on Cheerios boxes that are on their way to supermarkets across the country were back on their faces the morning after their fiasco Friday night.


Pelletier burns after poor effort
By Steve Buffery, Toronto Sun - Saturday, January 12, 2002

The bloom has fallen off the Orchid program for Jamie Sale and David Pelletier. Somewhere between the kiss and cry area and the media room last night, Pelletier blew a gasket.


Sale's slip was showing!
By Terry Jones, Edmonton Sun

Jamie Sale and David Pelletier didn't lose. But Pelletier lost it.


A so-so send-off for pairs champs
By Dave Perkins, Toronto Sun - January 12, 2002

It's about send-offs and how different they can be.


Pairs champions get a wake-up call
By Randy Starkman, Toronto Star - January 12, 2002

If world pairs champions David Pelletier and Jamie Salé were going to have a meltdown, this was the place for it.


Off Ice w/Debbi Wilkes Transcript
Airdate Fall 2001, WTSN

Debbie: when Jamie Sale was a starry eyed ten-year-old, just learning how to skate at Edmonton's Royal Glenora Club, she was already inspired by the club's outstanding history. I don't know, maybe it was the pictures of World and Olympic champions that lined it's walls, or maybe it was the tireless dedication of the coaching staff, who already understood her talent that was buried deeply within.


Pairs race heats up on the ice
By Randy Starkman, Toronto Star - January 11, 2002

It turns out that world pairs champs Jamie Salé and David Pelletier aren't just raising the level of their own skating.


Salé, Pelletier: The toast of pairs skating
By Rosie DiManno, Toronto Star - January 10, 2002

A conversation with David Pelletier and Jamie Salé is a seamless verbal exercise. They finish each other's sentences and complete one another's thoughts.


Will it be Orchid or Love Story?
By Steve Milton, Hamilton Spectator - January 8, 2002

Forget the paper flowers. Load up on the Orchids for Friday night.


Sale and Pelletier: One shot at Olympic gold?
By Canadian Press - January 9, 2002

It has been assumed, given that Jamie Sale and David Pelletier won their first world figure skating pairs title only last spring and that they will be competing in just their first Olympics together next month, that they would continue through the 2006 Winter Games.


Sale, Pelletier carefully consider Olympic program.
By Steve Milton, Hamilton Spectator - December 15, 2001

It's natural that a pair portraying an orchid would understand the fragility of even the most attractive situation. So, despite a winning streak that dates back 13 months and and seven major competitions, Jamie Sale and David Pelletier are keeping an open mind, a very open mind apparently, about what program they'll perform at the Olympics.


Hearts of gold
By Beth Hitchcock, Chatelaine Magazine - February 2002 issue

Just four years ago, skaters Jamie Salé and David Pelletier teamed up as a last-hope attempt to jump-start fizzling careers. Something magical happened. Now, this winning duo are an item and headed straight for Olympic gold


It's a love story, all right.
By Beverley Smith, Globe & Mail - Tuesday, January 1, 2002

Reigning world pairs champions Jamie Salé and David Pelletier have decided to skate their captivating Love Story routine at the Winter Olympics at Salt Lake City next month.


Salé, Pelletier ponder dumping `Orchid' for `Love Story' program
By Randy Starkman, Toronto Star - January 2, 2002

World pairs champs Jamie Salé and David Pelletier will skate their Orchid routine next week at the Canadian figure skating championships in Hamilton, but haven't made a final decision yet on what program they'll use at the Salt Lake Olympics.


It must be a Salt Lake Love Story
By Dave Stubbs, Montreal Gazette - Wednesday, December 26, 2001

Salé, Pelletier need to resurrect old program for 2002 Olympic pairs skating


This team is tops
By Terry Jones, Edmonton Sun - Friday, December 28, 2001

It's been quite a year for Sale and Pelletier who are expected to be named CP's team of 2001 today


Figure skaters Sale and Pelletier selected team of year in Canadian Press poll
By Neil Stevens, CP - Friday, December 28, 2001

Figure skaters Jamie Sale and David Pelletier, the world pairs champions who are on a winning streak they hope extends to Salt Lake City, are Canada's team of the year for 2001.