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- 20022002 skating judge fixHoaxes & Pop Culture
In the pairs free skate at the Salt Lake City Games, Berezhnaya and Sikharulidze skate first among the leaders with a small technical stumble; Salé and Pelletier follow with a clean, crowd-pleasing program. The judges split 5-4 in favour of the Russians for gold, with the Canadians taking silver and China's Shen Xue and Zhao Hongbo bronze. The arena reacts with sustained boos.
- 2024Taylor Swift psyopHoaxes & Pop Culture
Super Bowl LVIII is played at Allegiant Stadium in Nevada. The Kansas City Chiefs beat the San Francisco 49ers 25–22 in overtime, the longest Super Bowl in history, with Patrick Mahomes named MVP. Swift attends, having flown in from an Eras Tour show in Tokyo. No political endorsement is delivered at the game.
Drawn from 1,970 dated events across our case-file timelines. Dates reckoned in UTC.