Hi Maeda Mami-san, Shibata Kengo-san and Ishikawa Ikuko-san, do you know that it’s possible to change a score ever after the results were published? Perhaps you will seem a little incompetent, but you will prove your honesty and your morale rectitude in the public acknowledging of have do a mistake and in correcting it. Two examples:

The official protocol: http://www.isuresults.com/results/season1617/ec2017/ec2017_IceDance_SD_Scores.pdf.

I remember an interview of Anna Cappellini. They had to give back the small medals, because the correction was made after the ceremony. She didn’t complain, she has said that she was a little sad but that the rules are the rules, that they did a mistake, so the correction was right, and that she and Lanotte would do their best to win the gold with the Free Dance.

Another example came from the Short Program of the Ladies at the 2018 Olympic Games:

The official protocol: http://www.isuresults.com/results/season1718/owg2018/OWG2018_LadiesSingleSkating_SP_Scores.pdf.

You must say which mistake was made, if the skater made a mistake, or admit your own mistake, and change the scores. If not, Figure Skating isn’t fair competition, is arbitrary abuse by the judges.

Edit: Reading an old article I discovered that Ross Miner’s Short Program score at the 2012 NHK Trophy was changed after a day.

Edit 2: I’ve discovered that in 2018 the rule was changed, the skaters can’t protest anymore, regardless of how bad are judges’ mistakes. I do not understand the meaning, it seems to me an abuse towards skaters, who are left with no other possibility than to accept the injustice of which they are victims. But the referee can equally change the score, even without a protest: https://sportlandiamartina.link/2021/02/16/judges-fairness-and-the-past/.