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Ottavio Cinquanta

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33: 195:. This allowed the ISU to retain athletes who might have otherwise left Olympic-eligible skating to participate in unsanctioned made-for-television professional skating competitions, which were then offering large appearance fees to top skaters. The television money also allowed the ISU to sustain a variety of development programs in both 155:. He held the ISU position from 1994 to 2016 and the IOC position since 1996. In 2000 he was elected member of the IOC's executive committee, a position that he held until 2008. Prior to becoming ISU's president, he was ISU's vice president and before that the chair of its technical committee for 190:
When Cinquanta was first elected to the ISU Presidency, he was initially regarded as a progressive who introduced prize money at ISU events after negotiating several commercial contracts, including an important television contract with
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for figure skating whose major feature is secrecy, which would prevent anyone from knowing how an individual judge had marked the competition. The implementation of secret judging at the 2003
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However, because of his speed skating background, Cinquanta has been the subject of a considerable amount of criticism from the figure skating community, particularly in
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Cinquanta was consecutively reelected to the ISU Presidency at all the ISU elective Congresses until he passed the retirement age.
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from skating in the opening ceremony of that event and again at the 1998 Championships in
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Cinquanta had previously been loudly booed by fans at the 1996
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Grand Officers of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic
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President of the International Skating Union
Olaf Poulsen
Jan Dijkema
Rome
Italy
Milan
Italy
International Skating Union
International Olympic Committee
Short Track Speed Skating
Milan
Italy
ice hockey
athletics
speed skating
ABC Sports
figure skating
speed skating
ISU Grand Prix of Figure Skating
Canada
United States
2002 Olympic Winter Games figure skating scandal
new scoring system
World Figure Skating Championships
Washington, D.C.
World Figure Skating Championships
Edmonton, Alberta
Kurt Browning
Minneapolis, Minnesota

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