A NEW anti-cheating system for counting the judges’ scores in ice skating is
flawed, according to leading sports specialists. Ice skating’s governing body
announced the new rules last week after concerns that a judge at the Winter
Olympics may have been unfairly influenced.
Initially the judges in the pairs figure-skating event at the Winter Olympics
in Salt Lake City voted 5 to 4 to give the gold medal to a Russian pair, even
though they had a fall during their routine. But the International Skating Union
suspended the French judge for failing to reveal that she had been put under…
