In needed move to prevent federation figure skating heads from judging, ISU still needs to go further
/The International Skating Union’s biennial congress early next month will consider a proposal that might have been unnecessary if the top Canadian figure skating federation official had a more accurate ethical compass.
So you can call Urgent Proposal No. 6 the Leanna Caron Rule, since the proposal obviously was spurred largely by the actions of Skate Canada president Caron.
The proposal, submitted by the ISU Council, is a move in the right direction toward eliminating conflicts of interest that can undermine confidence in judging of this highly subjective sport. Hopefully, it will pass.
But it doesn’t go quite far enough.
And the ISU needs to change another regulation so it can go further.
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