Skating Officials Make New Scoring System to Prevent Same Mistakes from Happening Again
Irina Nechkina of Azerbaijan was demoted
after receiving several warnings. Nechkina can't appeal and will be replaced
by Rolf Pipoh of Germany for the Olympic ice-dance competition starting
Friday in Turin, Italy. This was a result of figure skating officials trying
to fix the impurities on the sport. Nechkina met with the ISU's ice-dance
technical committee in Turin to discuss the decision. The ISU changed its
scoring system shortly after the 2002 Salt Lake City Winter Olympics a
French judge admitted voting under pressure for Russians Elena Berezhnaya
and Anton Sikharulidze instead of Canadians Jamie Sale and David Pelletier
in the pairs final, this resulted on the Russian’s victory for one vote.
Sale and Pelletier ended up receiving duplicate gold medals. This was the
first time in Olympic history that a judge’s decision in overturned. The
judge involved, Marie-Reine Le Gougne, was suspended for three years. The
new system that was implemented includes a committee evaluating the performance
of judges after competitions. The old system is gone, replaced by a points-based
method where individual judges' marks remain anonymous.
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