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The decision was announced by ITTF in May 2011, after several sporting events including the 2011 World Figure Skating Championships were shifted from Japan due to the Tōhoku earthquake and the following Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster.
At the 2011 World Championships, Florent Amodio's long program music included words but an insufficient number of judges voted to penalize it.