Liga Pro Skate Jury Director confesses many irregularities
Exclusive of Site Nacional de Skate
On May 25, 2021 we published the news “Polémica no Dew Tour com protestos”, in which Brazilian athletes demonstrated against the judges of this event, and our post in our Instagram (who reported this same news) received public comments from 2 judges from the Liga Pro Skate (João Godinho and Bruno Jonet) in which they confessed to a “conflict of interest”, and one of them (João Godinho) who in 2019 judged his own son in that year’s competitions, appears to have now been rewarded in 2021 by those responsible for the Liga Pro Skate with a promotion to Technical Director of Judges (!??)
In the prints we show below, the current Technical Director of the Pro Skate League João Godinho confesses to having judged his own son in 2019, justifying this irregularity as necessary, claiming that there were not enough judges at the time, but that he even gave lower grades to his own son than he deserved, assuming that he conditioned him during the competitions! What Technical Director João Godinho seems to want to ignore is that he also conditioned all the remaining athletes by knowing that they were competing against “the judge’s son”, thus adulterating the sporting truth, and equality of opportunities.
Bruno Jonet (another current “father-judge”) confesses to being “an accomplice in something”, and considers it natural that in Portugal those who commit fraud are rewarded, but that currently no father-judge scores his own son because he leaves the table at the time his son competes… however, his judge friends remain at the table, and the remaining athletes on the court also continue to know that they are competing against “judges’ children”.
Faced with these confessions, Portuguese skaters ask whether:
1 – Will judges who believe that the ends justify the means be exempt judges?
2 – In 2021 is it still absolutely necessary to have judges who are parents of athletes because allegedly there are not enough judges, when the FPP officially announced that a large number of people have paid for the Skate Judge course?
3 – When they claim that they are judges just for the love of skateboarding, wouldn’t that be precisely why they should refuse to be judges so as not to condition their own children who compete, nor all other athletes?
Confirm what they wrote in the following prints of our instagram in Site Nacional de Skate (in Portuguese).
Given this evidence, it is understandable that the Liga Pro Skate (formerly the Skate Committee) is increasingly being seen as a competition under suspicion given that its Jury Panel is made up of family and friends.
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