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I do not think that this is true in men's skating any more. I don't think that there will ever again be a world champion who does not have strong quads.As it stands ... someone with only triples can compete with someone with strong quads
As for women, possibly, but only because there are no women who have "strong quads" (maybe Trusova) -- or any women doing quads at all now that Russian women have been banned from international competition..
Well, that is exacttly the premise of this thread, that quads (and especially the quad Axel) are "undervalued." I was hoping to gain some insight into this, but the only reason that has been advanced -- setting aside wuzrobbing and conspiracy theories -- is the obvious one that the ISU does not want the sport to be dominated by jumping to the exclusion of everything else. This explanation makes sense to me.Each rotation is exponentially harder so should be multiples higher not fractionally higher (especially with a quad).
For an Olympic sprinter it would be much easier to get the 100m sprint time down from 10.2 seconds to 10 seconds, than from 10 seconds to 9.8 seconds. Even though it's the same 0.2 decrease in the time.
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