A Soviet figure skating judge who gave...
A Soviet figure skating judge who gave unusually high marks to a Soviet skater faulted by other judges at the 1986 World Championships in Geneva, Switzerland, has been suspended for two years from international competition by Soviet skating officials.
An official from the World Figure Skating Championships said that Tatiana Danilenko gave marks of 5.9 and 5.8 to Soviet skater Alexander Fadeev in the men’s free skating competition Thursday.
Fadeev fell twice and did poorly in his routine, and the rest of the nine-judge panel gave him marks in the 5.4 to 5.6 range. A perfect score is 6.0.
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