Buttle beats Joubert to win men's gold
Canada's Jeffrey Buttle won the men's world championship gold on Saturday, with defending champion Brian Joubert rising from sixth place to take the silver in the final.
Canada's Jeffrey Buttle won the men's world championship gold on Saturday, with defending champion Brian Joubert rising from sixth place to take the silver in the final.
Frenchman Joubert had been given a controversial point deduction from his short program score on Friday for using music with lyrics but in the end the penalty had no bearing on the outcome of an event dominated by Buttle.
The Canadian, who won bronze at the Turin Olympics and silver at the 2005 world championships, skated a near-flawless routine to the Ararat soundtrack by Michael Danna and slapped the ice in triumph at the finish.
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