Posted on 02/19/2022 7:53:20 AM PST by CondoleezzaProtege
The quadruple jumps that sent Russian world champ Anna Shcherbakova to the gold medal and teammate Alexandra Trusova to the silver — much to her chagrin — along with the failed attempts that dumped 15-year-old Kamila Valieva out of the medals altogether could be a thing of the past by the 2026 Milan Olympics.
That's because more and more people are pushing for the age limit in figure skating to be raised above 16 following Valieva's monumental collapse Thursday night. While some young women skaters can land the jump earlier in their teens, it becomes far more difficult as they develop. No woman older than 17 has ever landed a quad in competition.
Take the case of Alysa Liu. The 16-year-old American, who finished seventh at the Beijing Games, was able to land the four-revolution jumps until two years ago, but stopped attempting them following a growth spurt.
"Injuries and puberty has been really hard to keep up with quads," Liu told NBC sportscaster Jimmy Roberts.
Liu said she sustained a lot of injuries trying to execute quads and doesn't think she'll ever do them again. She'll continue instead to focus on another notoriously difficult jump: the triple axel.
Shcherbakova and Trusova are both 17, and some have suggested that be the requirement for figure skating at the Olympics. Others are pushing for 18, the age at which men and women are legally adults in the U.S. and much of the world, and when their bodies are more fully developed and capable of handling the pounding of quadruple jumps.
As it stands, that's the age most of Russia's quad queens are hitting retirement.
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Lol raise it to 75 and eliminate triple,and double jumps,too
They go a long way to say boobs interfere with their performance.
Just have a figure skating competition where the prettiest outfit wins a medal. Everyone else gets a participant trophy.
You mean big fat old fatties like me cannot jump high, quad jumps? LOL That is TRUE!
Probably more hips and leg angles.
now that is GOOD! Kudos to you and your comment!!!!
Football next!
Eliminate ice and blade skates. They can just run around and make tiny jumps a couple of inches off the floor. A La Benny Hill.
Lol, but we need action. I,suggest the crowd gets to throw footballs at the skaters when they are least expecting it. The one who catches the most wins-
or have a game of Dodgeball while they are skating.
Lol,he was pretty funny
Bring back barrel jumping!
Like gymnastics - smaller body mass allows better performance so let’s install age discrimination to put an end to that 🤪
Another solution: Go back to requiring skating figures as part of the score! Yeah, they are boring to watch but they teach a fluid grace and require a level of concentration and attention to detail few teens excel at.
Figure skating has become “Jumping On Ice”. It has become gymnastics instead of ballet...
Just end it already. Olympics are nothing but political theater.
Apparently it’s not only that they are Quads...but they are being sloppily done technique wise — but points are there because of the perceived difficulty. That’s also angering people.
I’m thinking full contact golf.
75% of girls are automatically eliminated from medaling in some Olympic sports because they were born in the wrong year. I hear that some former gymnasts and skaters make sure to have babies (hopefully daughters) in the right years so that they will be at the best age in an Olympic year.
“...big fat old fatties like me...”
LOL. Very refreshing to see some good old fashioned self-deprecating humor.
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