Susan Johnson, a veteran international skating judge who lives in Atlanta, was one of the judges in Nagano who felt Ms. Kwan had won.

After the Olympics, the International Skating Union suspended Gailhaguet and a French skating judge, Marie Reine Le Gougne, for three years.

CoCo Shean is, of all things, an international skating judge - a strict one.

Stillwell, who has been a skating judge for 25 years, said he understood how someone could be left physically ill by loud booing and widespread media disenchantment with a result in a competition as important as the Olympics.

She was later appointed a skating judge.

Today's decision was the first time that a score by a skating judge was overturned at the Winter Games.

She decided later to become a skating judge, and progressed rapidly up the ranks.

"I see this as an unfortunate tragedy - it's not a Canadian issue," said Sally Rehorick, Canada's head of mission and a skating judge for 25 years.

She is also international skating judge - she was judge and referee on the Olympic Games in Grenoble, Innsbruck, Sapporo and Calgary.

Let them feel like an anonymous skating judge.