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Skating Officials Make New Scoring System To Prevent Same
Mistakes From Happening Again |
By:
Cathy Jones |
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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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