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LONDON -- Figure skating is bringing in the censors. Following complaints about "undignified" lifts in pair skating
and ice dancing, the International Skating Union has decided to
penalize certain moves such as upside down splits and backward
spread eagles. The ISU said referees and judges would deduct 0.1 from the
second mark for each movement considered to be "undignified." The
deductions will apply to all programs next season. "Following many complaints about the choice of lifts and
movements in pair skating and ice dancing, there is serious concern
about the display to the television public and audiences present of
undignified poses/positions," an ISU statement said. "These are being performed mainly by the ladies, for example,
sustained upside down splits, and spread eagles while leaning
backwards low to the ice."
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