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...with figure skating again -- and this includes ice dancing -- after Monday night. But given that skating czar Ottavio Cinquanta, who has been on TV more this week than Bob Costas, held yet another news conference Monday, this one to announce...
...A week after judging misconduct rocked the Olympics and embarrassed figure skating, International Skating Union Ottavio Cinquanta proposed a point system Monday to prevent it from happening again. "It is time to find something new," he said...
...own skating federation to vote for the Russians on Monday night. But who pressured her, and why? ISU president Ottavio Cinquanta skirted those questions Friday even as he suggested other officials could be punished and the sport may be in for...
...swallow the last of figure skating's tattered credibility? No matter that International Skating Union President Ottavio Cinquanta has pushed through a series of judging reforms intended to minimize the deal-making and vote-swapping Alimzan...
...said it would conduct a rare "internal assessment." ISU officials would not say anything more, but president Ottavio Cinquanta scheduled a news conference Wednesday. Controversy is practically a staple of figure skating, whether it's the...
...the Russians in the pairs' competition in Salt Lake City. The decision came after Le Gougne told ISU president Ottavio Cinquanta she had been "submitted to a certain pressure" from the French federation to vote for Elena Berezhnaya and Anton...
...said it would be difficult but not impossible to award a gold to Sale and Pelletier. "Nothing is impossible," Ottavio Cinquanta told NBC Sports. On Friday's "Today" show on NBC, Berezhnaya said she and her partner deserved the gold, but...
...immediately that International Skating Union rules required him to report Le Gougne's outburst to ISU president Ottavio Cinquanta. Her admission to having voted under pressure represented a clear rules violation. That afternoon, Pfenning sat...
...accusations, there was no collusion with the East European nations." Meanwhile, the IOC's move put ISU President Ottavio Cinquanta on the spot. If Cinquanta doesn't act quickly to resolve the problem, the IOC itself might step in. "We would...
...judge for criticism, fearing retaliation in their scores at next month's world championships in Japan. ISU chief Ottavio Cinquanta has proposed sweeping changes to figure skating's scoring system in an attempt to eliminate misconduct. But it...