Interference is a story of international intrigue set against the backdrop of the 2002 Winter Olympics. In this four-part series created by Olympic gold medalist Tara Lipinski, you’ll learn about the skating scandal that led to a major reform of how skating routines are judged.
The show introduced the audience to the Russian skating pair Elena Berezhnaya and Anton Sikharulidze, and Canadian skating partners Jamie Sale and David Pelletier, both of whom were expected to do well at the Winter Games in Salt Lake City in 2002. But when Berezhnaya and Sikharulidze were awarded a gold medal after performing a flawed routine (and Sale and Pelletier admitted to a silver judge) due to the alleged pressure of his scoring in favor of the Russian. It was such a controversy that Sale and Pelletier were eventually named co-gold medalists.
In the series, the judge at the center of the scandal speaks, along with the skater involved. And if you can’t get enough of the 2002 figure skating scandal, it’s also the subject of an episode of the Netflix series Bad Sport.









