NAGANO, Japan ? International Skating Union president Ottavio Cinquanta predicted that radical changes will be made in how figure skating is judged after a scandal during last month's Salt Lake City Olympics.
"The current system is no longer adequate and we are in favor of drastic changes," Cinquanta said Friday at the World Figure Skating Championships.
He also said the ISU has yet to receive a complaint from lawyers representing the French judge at the center of the judging scandal.
The ISU plans to hold a hearing in Lausanne on April 29-30.
Max Miller, the attorney for judge Marie-Reine Le Gougne, said Tuesday he filed a formal complaint with the ISU. In it, he accused the organization's technical committee chairwoman, Sally Stapleford, and pairs referee Ron Pfenning of exercising undue influence over Le Gougne.
Le Gougne was suspended. The decision came after Le Gougne told Cinquanta she "submitted to a certain pressure" from the French federation to vote for Elena Berezhnaya and Anton Sikharulidze.
The Russians received the gold medal, but the International Olympic Committee later awarded duplicate medals to Canadians Jamie Sale and David Pelletier.
The ISU indefinitely suspended Le Gougne for misconduct four days after the pairs' free program. The charge grew from statements she made in a review meeting the day after the competition, accusing French federation president Didier Gailhaguet of pressuring her to vote for the Russians.
At a news conference in Paris recently, Le Gougne defended her vote and claimed she was trapped by international officials and the news media into falsely accusing Gailhaguet of pressuring her.
Cinquanta said Friday he hoped a new judging system would restore confidence.
The ISU will meet in Kyoto in June for its biennial congress. Under the new system, skaters would be given points for completing required elements. The current system deducts points from skaters.