KYOTO, Japan -- Call it the Apolo Anton Ohno video rule.

The International Skating Union approved limited use of video replay for short-track protests Thursday morning, allowing it when ``readily available.''

Replay will be possible at televised competitions, but no special cameras will be set up at events that are not. The Olympics and world championships were televised last season, as were many of the World Cup events.

A proposal that would have required specific replay cameras at all ISU events was withdrawn.

``It'll come,'' said Andy Gabel, president of U.S. Speedskating.

Ohno won the gold medal in the 1,500 meters after World Cup champion Kim Dong-sung was disqualified. Kim crossed the finish line first, but an Australian referee ruled he had improperly blocked Ohno with a half-lap to go.

South Korea filed a protest, but the ISU turned it down because there was nothing in the rule book allowing for a referee's judgment call to be overturned.

Gabel said he thinks some form of video replay would have been approved at the congress even without the incident at the Olympics.

``It's been talked about for years,'' he said. ``The situation at the Olympics just advanced it, made it more known.''

The next step is getting video replay at all competitions, and Gabel said he doesn't think it would be that hard to set up with a couple of cameras and a monitor needed so a referee could look at the part of the race in question.

Figure skating already has its own replay system. So does the NFL.

``I don't think it's that hard,'' Gabel said. ``In football, if there's a problem, the referee looks at the monitor and makes a decision. I don't understand why we can't do the same thing.''