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Figure Skating · Level 9: Master · Sub-level 9.5

From 6.0 to Points

2 tests · 20 facts · updated 20 October 2026 · markdown

The 6.0 era, Bolero, Salt Lake City 2002 and the new system.

Each test below is ten questions on Insporta. The list under a test is what the questions check: one fact per question, with the source it was written from. Read it before the test, or come back from a wrong answer.

Test 1The 6.0 eraTake a test

  1. Their interpretation of Ravel's Bolero drew a 6.0 for artistic impression from each of the nine judges.

    Source: Olympedia, Christopher Dean · recall

  2. The free dance was skated to Ravel's Bolero.

    Source: Olympedia, Christopher Dean · recall

  3. They were fifth in 1980, won gold in 1984 and took bronze in 1994.

    Source: Olympedia, Christopher Dean · recall

  4. The majority-placement system, used for over a century, decided the results until after 2002.

    Source: Olympedia, 2002 Pairs · recall

  5. The old system's top mark was 6.0, the mark Torvill and Dean drew from all nine judges.

    Source: Olympedia, Christopher Dean; Olympedia, Figure Skating overview · recall

  6. Olympedia speaks of all nine judges in 1976 and 1984, and a nine-judge panel in 2002.

    Source: Olympedia, 1976 Ice Dancing; Olympedia, Christopher Dean; Olympedia, 2002 Pairs · recall

  7. Olympedia's results list them fifth at Lake Placid 1980.

    Source: Olympedia, Christopher Dean · recall

  8. Their Bolero gold sits between an early fifth place and a late bronze on their return.

    Source: Olympedia, Christopher Dean · applied

  9. Demonstration at Grenoble 1968, first title at Innsbruck 1976, Bolero at Sarajevo 1984.

    Source: Olympedia, Figure Skating overview; Olympedia, 1976 Ice Dancing; Olympedia, Christopher Dean · applied

  10. C has nine full discs, a 6.0 from every judge. A has six, B seven, D none.

    Source: Olympedia, Christopher Dean · applied

Test 2Salt Lake City and afterTake a test

  1. Berezhnaya and Sikharulidze won five first-place votes to four for Salé and Pelletier.

    Source: Olympedia, 2002 Pairs · recall

  2. Attention centred on the French judge, Marie-Reine Le Gougne, Judge 4.

    Source: Olympedia, 2002 Pairs · recall

  3. Le Gougne was suspended from judging for three years.

    Source: Olympedia, 2002 Pairs · recall

  4. Four days later the IOC and ISU placed both pairs joint first, with two sets of gold medals.

    Source: Olympedia, 2002 Pairs · recall

  5. IOC President Jacques Rogge and the ISU announced that both pairs would be placed joint first.

    Source: Olympedia, 2002 Pairs · recall

  6. The century-old majority-placement system was replaced by a points-based system.

    Source: Olympedia, 2002 Pairs; Olympedia, Figure Skating overview · recall

  7. The nine-judge panel became twelve, with nine scores selected at random and the judges undisclosed.

    Source: Olympedia, 2002 Pairs · recall

  8. The 5-4 result, the judge's account, joint gold four days later, then the new system.

    Source: Olympedia, 2002 Pairs · applied

  9. Figures with majority placement first, the short programme from the early 1970s, points after 2002.

    Source: Olympedia, Figure Skating overview; Olympedia, 2002 Pairs · applied

  10. B has five full discs and four rings, the 5-4 split. A is 9-0, C 4-5 and D 6-3.

    Source: Olympedia, 2002 Pairs · applied

Sources

ISU History; ISU, Figure skating jumps explained (2026); Olympedia (overview, 1908, 1924, 1972, 1976, 2002 and athlete pages); U.S. Figure Skating, World Figure Skating Hall of Fame. Every fact is recorded with its source in docs/FIGURE_SKATING_VERIFIED_FACTS.md. Original questions authored, nothing reproduced.

  • Olympedia, 2002 Pairs9
  • Olympedia, Christopher Dean6
  • Olympedia, Christopher Dean; Olympedia, Figure Skating overview1
  • Olympedia, 1976 Ice Dancing; Olympedia, Christopher Dean; Olympedia, 2002 Pairs1
  • Olympedia, Figure Skating overview; Olympedia, 1976 Ice Dancing; Olympedia, Christopher Dean1
  • Olympedia, 2002 Pairs; Olympedia, Figure Skating overview1
  • Olympedia, Figure Skating overview; Olympedia, 2002 Pairs1