Figure skating is not really a sport. There are no objective means to measure winner and loser. It’s completely subjective. The reason to watch it is for its beauty, it should only be an exhibition event.
I believe the highest and lowest scores for each element are thrown out...maybe the same should be done for the final totals or judges should recuse themselves from their own country competitors.
These scandals are getting too regular for the ISU to not at least acknowledge a problem.
While there is a subjective judging I respectfully disagree that it is not a sport.
TO be competitive as a male(real male)figure skater you have to be able to preform a QUAD spin. Meaning IF you can ONLY spin around three times in the air you are just NOT good enough.
In addition, the young man who won the gold medal for the USA also is one of the only people to throw a BACK FLIP into the routine too. To the best of my knowledge it has only been done once or twice prior by other skaters.
This is the same with gymnastics. Some of the moves that these young men and women do today as part of the routine is so much more difficult than they did just thirty years ago.
Famous gymnasts like Nadia or Olga wouldn’t even be in the top ten today with the difficulty of the things they preform.
This is the same for skating. Twenty years ago IF you could spin three times around was incredible. Now, it is ordinary.
ANY of the top competitors can do that.
Similar to the pitchers in MLB. Virtually all of them can throw 95 mph. Chapman routinely throws 102 mph. Just another day at the park for him. Yet when Mariano Rivera was a closer for the Bronx Bombers that was incredible when he would attain 100 mph.