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...Early on Tuesday morning, just hours after the gold medal had gone to the Russians, Yelena Berezhnaya and Anton Sikharulidze, the nine judges of the pairs event and two referees convened in a windowless basement room of the Salt Lake Ice Center. The door was sealed with thick tape that kept prying reporters from eavesdropping on the deliberations. It also prevented them from hearing the weeping of the French judge, Marie-Reine Le Gougne. Ron Pfenning is the U.S. referee who would bring Le Gougne's accusations to Ottavio Cinquanta, president of the International Skating Union. Last week he told...
...work their way up to the Olympics after years of judging lower-level events. They are regularly retrained and tested to keep them sharp on new developments in their field. But the very nature of the judging process in figure skating, which does not rely on clocks or tape measures, allows them to inject personal and national prejudices. Skaters are scored on two standards. Technique--things like the speed of their jumps and the intricacy of their footwork--is supposed to be the more objective of the two. Artistry is plainly in the eye of the beholder. There...
...skaters. At several competitions leading up to the '98 Winter Games in Nagano, Jean Senft, a Canadian Olympic judge, was disturbed to have been privy to conversations in which judges agreed in advance on the outcomes. When she complained to skating officials, they demanded proof. So Senft brought a tape recorder with her to the Nagano games. On the day of the pairs competitions, she surreptitiously taped a phone call from a Ukrainian judge, Yuri Balkov, who asked her to vote for the Ukrainian skaters in exchange for his support for the Canadian skaters Shae-Lynn Bourne and Victor Kraatz...
...Senft submitted the tape to the I.S.U. As a result, Balkov was suspended from his duties for one year. But to Senft's astonishment, she was suspended for six months, a move by skating officials that would not do much to encourage other whistle blowers. "They felt I was part of the misconduct just by being on the other end of the phone," she says. "For heaven's sakes, if I were part of it, why would I bring it forward?" Meanwhile Balkov, his suspension complete, is at the Salt Lake City Games--as a judge in the controversial...
...dozen students, some with their mouths covered by duct tape, protested yesterday what they call a lack of ethnic diversity in the University’s departments and course offerings...