Aleksandr Fadeev (URS) - 1986 World Figure Skating Championships, Men's Long Program

Geneva, SWITZERLAND - 1986 World Figure Skating Championships, Men's Long Program - Aleksandr Fadeev of the Soviet Union had a disastrous skate here -- touching down on the triple flip., stepping or falling out of both triple Axel attempts, and outright falling on a quadruple toe-loop attempt and on the triple loop. During this season, the ISU had voted to impose an automatic 0.1 deduction in the Technical Merit for each fall. Despite the falls and other errors, the Soviet judge, Tatiana Danilenko, gave him a 5.9 (meaning she was at least scoring him from a 6.1). The audience was so ourtraged that they boo-ed heavily for the scores given by her and the Austrian judge. The Soviet Federation, out of embarrassment, would suspend Danilenko before the ISU could. However, after the suspension, she would be allowed to continue judging, as she did in the Ladies' Event at the 2002 Winter Games in Salt Lake City. Fadeev would place 5th in the Long Program and end up dropping from 1st to 3rd Place overall.

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[mlc2005]

Plus, at least the Soviet judge, despite the ridiculous 5.9, still placed him second. The Austrian judge placed him first.

[3Axel1996]

@mlc2005 Actually, 2nd. Remember, the rule changes after the 1988 season made the first tiebreaker, the higher Artistic Impression marks in the Long Program. Prior to that (1981-1988), the first tiebreaker was the Technical Merit mark. Nevertheless, Boitano scored 5.9/5.8, while Fadeev got 5.8/5.8. Orser was given 5.7/5.9.

[mlc2005]

Yeah, but all of the Soviet judges were corrupt, so being "replaced" really meant nothing.

[grafgirl27]

Why is Danilenko still involved in the sport even into the 2000s. She is clearly a corrupt judge who is only interested in pushing the Soviet or Russian skaters.

[mattimattiusa]

Russian judge gave him 5.9 for that splat-fest. LOL

[lambielkwanfan]

The ironic thing is needing only to finish 3rd to stay in 1st overall he could have probably won with just the first 3 big mistakes (steps out/touchdowns) and not had the 2 falls. Or maybe even with just 1 of the falls and the other 3 mistakes he could have done that. It probably wouldnt have taken much to beat kotin and Petrenko in the long program. He was stupid to try the quad after all those other mistakes. If he isnt even landing his normal jumps he is way off and wont land a quad.