{"id":66290,"date":"2026-02-13T12:55:51","date_gmt":"2026-02-13T17:55:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/13\/skating-body-defends-olympic-judging-after-french-duos-ice-dance-gold\/"},"modified":"2026-02-13T12:55:51","modified_gmt":"2026-02-13T17:55:51","slug":"skating-body-defends-olympic-judging-after-french-duos-ice-dance-gold","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/13\/skating-body-defends-olympic-judging-after-french-duos-ice-dance-gold\/","title":{"rendered":"Skating body defends Olympic judging after French duo\u2019s ice dance gold"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>\n<p>French judge marked French duo higher than US pair<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Petition calling for probe approaches 15,000 signatures<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>ISU says it has \u2018full confidence\u2019 in scoring system<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The International Skating Union (ISU) has defended the integrity of Olympic ice dance judging after a single judge\u2019s scoring gap became central to the outcome of the gold medal contest, insisting variations across panels are expected and that safeguards exist to prevent bias from determining results.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement released on Friday, the governing body rejected suggestions that the judging system failed during the competition, in which France\u2019s Laurence Fournier Beaudry and Guillaume Cizeron <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/2026\/feb\/11\/fear-and-gibson-winter-olympics-team-gb-ice-dancing-figure-skating\">narrowly defeated Americans Madison Chock and Evan Bates<\/a> in one of the closest and most disputed finishes of the Milano Cortina Games.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/2026\/feb\/13\/olympic-ice-dance-french-judge-scoring-controversy\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>French judge marked French duo higher than US pair Petition calling for probe approaches 15,000 signatures ISU says it has \u2018full confidence\u2019 in scoring system The International Skating Union (ISU) has defended the integrity of Olympic ice dance judging after a single judge\u2019s scoring gap became central to the outcome of the gold medal contest, &#8230; <a title=\"Skating body defends Olympic judging after French duo\u2019s ice dance gold\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/13\/skating-body-defends-olympic-judging-after-french-duos-ice-dance-gold\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Skating body defends Olympic judging after French duo\u2019s ice dance gold\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-66290","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66290","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66290"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66290\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}