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I know Mae got once costume deduction cause one of her feathers on her costume fell on the ice.
Do you remember some other instances?
Do you remember some other instances?
Interesting that it says "At ISU Championships, the Olympic Winter Games and International Competitions" but like the example I gave, are there any regulations for domestic competition?
I guess it says so because ISU regulate international events. National Federations decide on how domestic competitions are conducted. Many of them, especially the major ones like Nationals, are conducted under the International Judging System (IJS) and therefore the same rules of ISU international events are applied.
I wonder if that applied under 6.0 or if it would just be a case of the national federation following their own similar sort of guidelines.
I seem to recall it was a particular Katerina Witt costume (an almost none existent skirt) that was the cause of some of these regulations. I don't know if any of the judges marked her down for the offending costume or not at the time.
Who could forget Gabriella Papadakis' unfortunate wardrobe malfunction at the last Olympics.
Unfortunate it was, but they never received any deductions or costume violations for it.
I remember one instance with Wang/Wang, when Lei had to basically rip his tie off and throw it to the side - sadly I don't remember when this was exactly, nor am I able to find the video.
One time a costume problem actually helped a skater. Todd Eldredge fell on a triple Axel and lost a cuff link. He spotted it on the ice and stopped the program to retrieve it. The referee allowed him to restart the program from before the Axel attempt. (They couldn't be sure if the cuff link came off because of the botched attempt, or if was already oin the ice and maybe caused the fall.)
On the second try he landed the jump and went on to win the competition.