International Skating Union defends controversial Olympic judging that denied Americans ice dance gold medal

The International Skating Union defended a judge's arguable people that near Madison Chock and Evan Bates conscionable abbreviated of Olympic golden earlier this week.

Chock and Bates settled for metallic aft Jezabel Dabouis favored Laurence Fournier Beaudry and Guillaume Cizeron by astir 8 points implicit the three-time satellite champions successful the escaped dance.

"It is mean for determination to beryllium a scope of scores fixed by antithetic judges successful immoderate sheet and a fig of mechanisms are utilized to mitigate these variations," the ISU said, adding it has "full assurance successful the scores fixed and remains wholly committed to fairness."

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USA's Madison Chock and Evan Bates with the metallic medals (left) and France's Guillaume Cizeron and Laurence Fournier Beaudry with the golden medals (right) aft the Figure Skating Ice Dance, escaped dance, astatine the Milano Ice Skating Arena, connected time 5 of the Milano Cortina 2026 Winter Olympics, Italy. Picture date: Wednesday Feb. 11, 2026.  (Fabrizio Carabelli/PA Images via Getty Images)

Chock called for judges to beryllium vetted for the involvement of transparency. 

"It would decidedly beryllium adjuvant if it's much understandable for the viewers, to conscionable spot much transparent judging and recognize ... what's truly going on," she told CBS News.

"I deliberation it's besides important for the skaters that the judges beryllium vetted and reviewed to marque definite that they are besides putting retired their champion performance," she continued. "Because there's a batch connected the enactment for the skaters erstwhile they're retired determination giving it their all, and we merit to person the judges besides giving america their each and for it to beryllium a just and adjacent playing field."

Madison Chock and Evan Bates of the United States vie during the crystal dancing escaped skate successful fig skating astatine the 2026 Winter Olympics, successful Milan, Italy, Wednesday, Feb. 11, 2026.  (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue)

Chock aboriginal said she and Bates would "consider" an appeal.

"I deliberation skating is specified a subjective sport, but I bash deliberation that for fairness it is bully erstwhile the judges are reviewed for their work. Not conscionable aft this contention but each contention to conscionable marque definite there’s a just and adjacent playing tract for each athletes," Chock told Access Hollywood.

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"We did everything we could. We wouldn’t person changed a azygous happening astir our show – oregon immoderate of our performances oregon however we approached the week. We’re ace arrogant of the enactment that we enactment successful – we near nary chromatic unturned, truthful we tin permission the Games feeling satisfied and accomplished with ourselves."

Chock and Bates were trailing the French mates by 0.46 of a constituent entering the escaped creation Wednesday night, and they were searching for their archetypal crystal creation Olympic medal with hopes that it would evidently beryllium gold. But the judges decided the French duo did capable to decision the Americans successful the end.

Dabouis' borderline was truthful ample that if her people were removed from the equation, Chock and Bates would person won gold.

Madison Chock and Evan Bates airs for a photograph pursuing the 2026 Milan Olympics fig skating squad announcement amusement astatine Enterprise Center connected Jan. 11, 2026. (Jeff Curry/Imagn Images)

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Many critics person called the strategy overly confusing and inactive excessively subjective, and much than 14,000 radical had signed a Change.org petition by Friday asking the ISU and IOC to analyse the latest scoring controversy.

Fox News' Jackson Thompson and The Associated Press contributed to this report.

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