Winter Olympics: Chinese figure skating judge who was banned for ‘obvious’ bias is serving on Beijing 2022 technical panel
- Huang Feng is working as a technical controller for Beijing Games, after suspension for showing ‘systemic’ bias at Pyeongchang 2018
- Though he does not directly provide scores, official can propose corrections regarding level of difficulty identified for a given element
A Chinese figure skating judge who was previously banned for unfairly favouring his own country’s athletes is serving on a technical judging panel at the Beijing Winter Olympics.
Huang Feng was one of two Chinese judges who were suspended by the International Skating Union (ISU) after being found guilty of bias during the Pyeongchang Winter Olympics in 2018.
While his countryman Chen Weiguang was handed a two-year ban and excluded from judging at Beijing 2022, Huang was given just a one-year suspension and allowed to return for the 2022 Games.
At the Beijing Games, Huang is working as a technical controller, an official who supervises technical specialists who decide the difficulty of skating moves and how they should be scored.
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Though he does not directly provide scores, he can propose corrections regarding the level of difficulty identified for a given element.