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 | | Sale grew up in the western province of Alberta, strapped on her first pair of skates before her second birthday and at age 8 announced to her mother that she was Olympic material; Pelletier played hockey in a small town in French-speaking Quebec and as a child thought figure skating too girlie. |
 | | Sale, 24, and Pelletier, 27, have cycled through four partners between them (Sale placed 12th in pairs in the 1994 Olympics) and even dabbled in singles skating. |
 | | This year Sale and Pelletier trotted out Orchid, a new high-concept routine (he played the stem, she the blooming flower) but on the eve of the Olympics settled on Love Story, based on the 1970 love-and-death melodrama, which first enchanted judges back in 1999. |
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