Quote Originally Posted by Exile
- she fell on her butt, twice -
This is true the first minute of her program were a disaster. The next 3 1/2 minutes were flawless and Sasha ending up with a silver medal not the gold. You can compare it to a team playing very bad in the first quarter and being down 30-0, than over the next 3 quarters playing great but still losing the game 30-28. Many in the media here slammed her for choking, I give the kid alot of credit for being able to pull out the rest of her program after such a bad start. They estimated that if Sasha won the Gold Medal she would of gotten about $20 million in endorsement contracts from different companies. Those 2 slips on the ice were very costly to her. Although I'm sure she'll still make millions.

Japan ended with the Gold, their only medal of the games, and Russia with the Silver.