Judges got it so wrong

Sale and Pelletier (left) thought they deserved gold

Olympic gold medallist Robin Cousins gives his reaction to the controversial pairs' final result in Salt Lake City.

It has to be said, in all fairness, that the wrong team won the Olympic gold medal in pairs' figure skating.

There is controversy surrounding the result already and I am in total agreement.

Elena Berezhnaya and Anton Sikharulidze of Russia won the title by the slimmest of margins over the reigning world champions Jamie Sale and David Pelletier of Canada.

I am a huge fan of the Russians, they are probably the best skaters in the world at the moment, but they were not the best.

The Canadians produced a flawless display

Their warm-up was great and relaxed, but there was a tension in their performance that I don't usually see.

They made the tricks happen, but not in a way that I'm used to seeing.

The couple made a visible mistake too; he stepped out of a double axel jump.

The Canadians, on the other hand, came out and looked like they were doing an exhibition number.

They were very much relaxed and faultless during their routine to the Love Story soundtrack.

We were all waiting for the 6.0s to come out on the scoreboard.

It was a shock when that didn't happen.

The 16,000 or so people in the building went into absolute shock.

The Russians made a visible mistake during their routine

I felt disappointed as an athlete, as an Olympian and as a figure skater when that happened.

The talk of the Games will now be this result.

In the short programme, you could say you preferred the Canadians over the Russians for a variety of reasons.

In the long, however, I don't think anyone in the building and certainly any figure skaters in the building would have thought it was a close contest.

The judges would have seen a few minor faults if they really got picky, but the pickiness should have gone in favour of the Canadians and not the Russians.

It's left a sour taste already and this is just the first of four figure skating events to come.