...but these days she is about as anonymous as the curling team.
Posted on 02/11/2010 10:07:44 AM PST by C19fan
Remember the town in Vietnam that, they said, had to be destroyed in order to be saved? Something like that applies very well to figure skating, a sport with a judging system was so corrupt that changes had to be made. Unfortunately, instead of trusting that they could change the judges, they changed the whole system, and thereby destroyed the sport's popularity.
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I just looked it up [it has a Wikipedia entry of all things]. You are right. “COMPULSORY FIGURES” were eliminated in 1990.
Watch “Blades of Glory.”
...but these days she is about as anonymous as the curling team.
And this one, Not Guilty as ever but more experienced:
There hasn’t really been another ice skater since, if you know what I mean.
LOL--- You ALMOST got me! Very good!
Bows, thank you.
Yes, TV had something to do with the school figure elimination. But, it was also something that took many, many years to learn and expensive. Kids would get up before the crack of dawn to practice before school. Renting the ice patches for practice was expensive and if you couldn’t pass a higher level figure test during judging, that would be it for your skating career, if you had higher hopes. You couldn’t go into competitions without being able to pass the figures part of the competition. Eliminating figures also changed the judging, putting more weight on jumps vs the other elements of skating. Now we’re at the point where adolescent girls are jumping quads. I’m not a fan, I think the fact that they have to keep their weight so low and the back injuries from constant training is insane.
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