A new scoring system for figure skating has been approved after the Olympic pairs scandal forced the sport's governing body to make radical changes.

　　The International Skating Union's new system replaces the famed 6.0 score and is based on points for jumps, spins, footwork and artistic elements.

　　The format was tested last season in the Grand Prix series and will be used at all international competitions and the 2006 Olympics in Turin, Italy.

　　ISU head Ottavio Cinquanta has been urging change since his sport was disgraced at the 2002 Salt Lake City Games.

　　The International Olympic Committee pressured the ISU into awarding a second pairs gold medal and made clear it wanted a new judging system.

　　At the 2002 Olympics, French judge Marie-Reine Le Gougne claimed she was pressured by her federation's chief, Didier Gailhaguet, to favor Russians Elena Berezhnaya and Anton Sikharulidze in the pairs event over Canada's Jamie Sale and David Pelletier.

　　The Russians won by a 5-4 margin among the judges, but Le Gougne's admission, which she later recanted, led to the IOC awarding gold medals to the Canadians, too.