Edited again to recategorize from “Proposal” to “Null”.  Bucky pointed out that my edits after the initial posting made this purported proposal illegal under the rules.

Reformatted again, in an effort to conform to other rules.  (I would have thought that internal numbering would be a useful aid to citation.)

Proposed new rule: “The French Skating Judge”, to be a subrule under Part 2.

There exist currency units, called “bucks”. Each Olympian’s bucks are marked in the GNDT in a column called “$”. An Olympian may not have less than zero Bucks. Each time an Olympian spends one or more Bucks, that number of Bucks is deducted from the Olympian’s total number of Bucks. No Olympian may attempt to spend more Bucks than e has.  Initially, each Olympian has zero
An Olympian with a Popularity of at least 1 may convert any positive number of eir Popularity points into Bucks. By way of illustration, an Olympian with a Popularity of 3 may convert up to 3 Popularity points into Bucks, and if the Olympian converted 2 Popularity points into Bucks, then the Olympian’s Bucks would be increased by 2 and eir Popularity would be decreased by 2. [Comment- this is supposed to represent an Olympian cashing in on eir popularity by engaging in paid endorsements.]  The rules may specify other means by which an Olympian can obtain or lose Bucks. If an Olympian spends Bucks, the number of Bucks that are spent are deducted from eir total Bucks.

An Olympic event may be designated as a “Judged Event”. [Comment- this is supposed to reflect competitions where the results are determined by, or influenced by, judges (e.g., figure skating, gymnastics, diving, boxing under certain circumstances, and so on.)]   No Event may be designated as a “Judged Event” after the event has closed.  If an Olympic event is designated as a “Judged Event”, then any Olympian may spend Bucks to try to influence the outcome of the event, in accordance with the following (in which case this rule overrides the rules normally applicable to that event):
1. The Olympian must declare the number of Bucks that e is spending on attempting to influence the outcome of the event. This number of Bucks is considered spent whether or not the attempt is successful. [This represents bribing the French judge.]
2. The Olympian then must roll 1DICE20. If the result of the roll is less than or equal to the number of Bucks that the Olympian spent under subpart 1 above, then the attempt is considered successful (subject to subpart 5 below)
3. An Olympian who successfully influences the outcome of the event in accordance with subpart 2 above may designate any Olympian (including emself) as the gold medal winner of the event (subject to subparts 4 and 5 below) (and the Olympians who would have won medals but for successful attempts to influence the outcome in accordance with this rule are accordingly demoted (i.e., gold-to-silver, silver-to-bronze, bronze-to-no medal.)
4. If two or more Olympians successfully influence the outcome of a single event in accordance with subpart 2 above, then the Olympian who rolled the lowest successful 1DICE20 to influence the outcome of the event may designate the gold medal winner, the Olympian who rolled the next lowest successful 1DICE20 to influence the outcome of the event may designate the silver medal winner, and if applicable, the Olympian who rolled the next lowest successful 1DICE20 to influence the outcome of the next lowest successful 1DICE20 to influence the outcome of the event may designate the bronze medal winner.
5. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this rule, if any two Olympians attempt to influence the outcome of a particular event in accordance with this rule and they have identical 1DICE20 rolls, then both attempts are considered unsuccessful.
The rules may specify other ways that Olympians can spend Bucks.