The 2000 Worlds came around, Elena Berezhnaya and Anton Sikharudlidze withdrew from the competition due to a drug test coming back positive at European's. Jamie and David had a good chance of medalling and winning, but the favored were the Chinese pair. David didn't want to jinx himself and said to the press, "If it happens, I'll buy everybody a beer." The Chinese made sloppy mistakes and if Jamie and David were to skate cleanly, they would take home the gold at their first World Championships. The program was disaterous from the start, with Jamie popping out of her triple toe, she singled her double axel and was also early taking off, and popped the final side by side jump. Yet she nailed the throw jumps and all the other elements. Jamie came off the ice crying, and David didn't look happy with their performance, they dropped to 4th place. That night at the hotel room, Jamie's mom and consoled her when David came up to take over, as her mom says "It wasn't that she pushed me away. I just knew that it was time for me to sort of not worry about it anymore. Dave and she would get through this together. It was their thing to get through."
After Nice, Jamie and David returned home and Jamie's problem was found to be in her head and she started going to a sports psychologist. The fustration got to them both, and when Jamie missed her jumps, David got fustrated along with her. Their coach said, "It was on one week, off the next week. So I could sort of know by the way they acted on the ice whether this week they were a couple or not. But you have to work with the relationship. You can't keep it out of what happens on the ice."
As time passed, Jamie and David's off the ice relationship had its ups and downs. A week before the 2001 Worlds, Jamie left David. "I can't put up with him anymore. We're [were] leaving next Wednesday for Worlds. Is there any way you can focus back on the operational plan?". When Jamie showed up at the rink and the two couldn't even make eye contact. Jamie then said, "I'm going home. If he can't look at me when I'm skating, I'm not skating. I'm not a secretary that's going to come in, punch in, do my stuff and leave." David in return posted a threat to Richard, "You get her back on the ice, or I'm leaving, and you'll never seeing me in this building again." This was 3 days before Worlds. They got back onto the ice in time for Worlds, and their short program had a flaw, with Jamie stepping out of her side-by-side triple toe. But there was still hope, whoever won the long program, won the championship. The long program went smoothly, excpet for a popped axel by Jamie, but the crowd was so loud in Vancouver, that Jamie and David were skating by memory. The ending came sooner for Jamie, with 20 seconds left in the program she was crying and saying "Oh my God" and David "Concentrate! Its not over yet!" Jamie and David both had tears coming down their faces as they sat in the kiss and cry area awaiting their scores. Jamie was holding a huge pink stuffed pig in her lap, and when the final placement came up, that pig was back in the stands. Jamie and David had won the gold, in their home country! Jamie had tears in her eyes listening to "O Canada" and David held his composure until he got backstage and saw his parents.
After Worlds, in June of 2001, Jamie and David packed up and moved to Edmonton to train with Jan Ullmark. People asked why they would leave the coach who brought them to the world championships, and just eight months before the Olympics? At a press conference, Jamie and David's response was, "We have our reasons." Jamie had called Ullmark stating that they might leave Montreal and were hoping he would take them on. Jan was Jamie's singles coach before she started skating with David. For David, Jan seemed to understand his fustration. "Richard would just say 'You can't act like that,' and that sometimes made things worse. With Jan, it would be "I understand why you're feeling like this. And as soon as he would say this, it would be gone. The Gran Prix Final was an odd competition, where you skated two long programs. Jamie and David decided to skate their new program 'Orchid' and bring back 'Love Story'. There were some people that didn't support Orchid and so this would decide which program they would skate at the Olympics. When they performed Love Story, Jamie and David got two 6.0s, and now they were heading into the Olympics with a nine competition winning streak.
It seemed clear that 'Love Story' was going to be the program they would use at the Olympics, but they gave 'Orchid' one last chance at the 2002 Canadian Championships. Jamie did something backstage that she normally didn't do, and that was watching the other competitors on the monitors. David was worried this would break her concentration, but Jamie wasn't focused by the time they stepped onto the ice. The first side-by-side jump, Jamie came down to the ice, she bobbled the next jump, and also doubled the throw salchow. They came off the ice, and David's anger was clearly shown on his face. Jan sat between them in the kiss and cry area, and as soon as he could, David stormed out of the area. He stormed out, walking off into a corner by himself and yanking off the top of his costume. It took him more than an hour to compose himself enough to come to the post competition press conference. For Jamie, watching her boyfriend turn on her, was "painful, because we'd worked so hard at being able to be there for each other when we don't skate our best. So I needed him to support me and tell me, 'You know what? It's okay. We're gonna go home and fix this. Don't worry. You just had a bad night.' But I felt that he was basically tearing me part. And if he wasn't my boyfriend? I would've went, 'Screw you.' You know? But I was like, my heart just shattered. I mean, I was already in pain because I felt like such a loser out on that ice. And the fact that he was like against me, that was it. Like I thought we were breaking up." David apologized within a few days, and they began training again. Three weeks before the Olympics, David was so nervous about the Olympics, that he was saying he didn't want to go. They were both getting fustrated with one another and what was going on. Jamie had once again "lost" her side by side jumps. It took David a while to get over this, he stated, "Jan, I can't take this. I mean, she won't let it go.". Then in a turn of events, David lost his double axel for two weeks. He too had "lost" his jump.
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