Paraphrasing Fiona's wonderful headline on rssif ...
Search the Globe and Mail www.globeandmail.com for this Oct. 8 story (a
different report from what I posted recently).

"...Ottavio Cinquanta is less than pleased with figure skaters who have spoken
out against a new judging system that will be tested this season, according to a
confidential memo obtained by The Globe and Mail.
"It is not possible to accept such criticism," Cinquanta said in a two-page
letter dated Oct. 1 and sent to council members, technical committee members,
the management commission of the Grand Prix series and others.
.....
"The opinion of the skaters can be respected, but it is more difficult to accept
them," Cinquanta wrote, before naming Olympic champion Alexei Yagudin, who told
The Associated Press about two weeks ago that he thinks the new system will open
up even more opportunity for "judges to mess up" and that judges will still
speak to each other, but there will be no way to know whether they make
agreements.
.....
Because Yagudin remains an Olympic-eligible skater, Cinquanta said the ISU had
to consider the concerns, but the criticisms are unacceptable because both
systems "do not have the aim to hide the work of the judges."
.....
[Jon Jackson said] "They're not responding to the problem. They seem to think
that if they just make change, the [International Olympic Committee] and the
media and everyone will be happy. And the change we're looking for is to change
the problem. And they just cannot seem to connect change with the problem."
"[Cinquanta] seems to be the one who is going to solve it one way or the other,"
he said. "Maybe the fact that he doesn't understand figure skating is the reason
he can't connect the solution to the problem. . . . They've taken the problem
and made it worse."
[Ted] Barton praised Cinquanta's vision, saying that it took the detached eye of
someone unfamiliar with the sport to spot what is wrong with it.