It’s been well over a decade since Team USA had a figure skating lineup as strong as the one traveling to the Milano Cortina Olympics this winter. The group includes current world champions Ilia Malinin and Alysa Liu, and hopes are high that they’ll both return to the States with hardware in hand. In the process, hopefully they won’t get embroiled in an international scandal—though for champion figure skaters, that’s always a distinct possibility. Figure skating has long been a controversy-prone sport. For one, it’s maddeningly subjective, with a scoring system that no one understands (judges included). It’s also got particularly lofty stakes: Skaters train their whole lives for a handful of minutes on the Olympic stage, their dreams riding on slivers of steel. Throw in a dash of geopolitics (on the ice, the Cold War never ended), and you’ve got all the ingredients for drama on an operatic scale. While no one can predict what will go down in Milano Cortina, read ahead to catch up on skating’s biggest scandals before the Games begin …