Ice referee wants wide-open judging for figure skating
NZPA-Reuter ! Budapest The referee,! of the ice dance competition which opened the world figure skating championships! yesterday wants to end; the controversy which plagued (the event at the Winter Olympics in Cal-, gary last month: Mr Roland Wehinger, of Switzerland, said on Monday he would be urging his nine judges to; scorei more freely and fairly. ! !|- I He said he deplored the lack of changes' in the order of the couples from the start to the finish of; the competition in Calgary.; j ; “We need'! to make changes,” Mr Wehinger. said.' “I am really disturbed that the placing of couples in the first compulsory i remained
their placing i through' the event. It also happened at thej European championships in January,” he said. ! I l]| There was only one i small change in the order of the 20 couples in Calgary from the first compulsory to the end of the i event, involving' the skaters in fourteenth and fifj teenth positions. ' ; I One high j International Skating Union (official said it was “disgusting that i there was no more movement than that.” ■ H Mr Wehinger, who will be refereeing for! the first time here, said: “We have to teach/ our judges to change a very 7 old; tradition, j ; i | ‘.‘l will advise them'and urge them to have the courage to mark the skaters up if
they jit is deserved, and to [mark others down if they fee! (they have not skated well. | “Thcjy should have the courage to do this and 1 will tel! thfjm to do it,” Mr Wehinger said. He, Added that it was not within his pqwer to tell the judges to -mark specific skaters up or down. “I (will tell them that if-they really like one (couple’s dancing, or do not like j it, i they should: have trie courage to' score it accordingly,’’! he said. Mr Wehinger was referring tolwhait is believed to be the judges] practice of 1 deciding on| din order before the event starts — based on thd skaters’ retard — and sticking to it throughout. Tl| • |
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