But that doesn't translate to technical score...
I don't think it is particularly useful to re-score old programs using IJS. Under 6.0 other things were valued that do not necessarily fill a box on a CoP protocol sheet.
I don't think it is particularly useful to re-score old programs using IJS. Under 6.0 other things were valued that do not necessarily fill a box on a CoP protocol sheet.
Anyway, it's probably hard to convince anyone as everyone's set on their mind so let's leave it at that.
All I know is I watch M/D programs from time to time in awe and never bother looking at G/G programs until today.
I'd agree with N&K in dance. 2006 was a ho-hum dance year. D&V were the nice, bright spot.
I don't know that I'd call it ho-hum. During the OD we had an epic amount of falls... plus Babs' stare down...
What a night of figure skating that was! Next best thing was that we had that wonderful discussion group afterward that Mary Carillo so wonderfully anchored. It was great TV with Barbara coming close to killing her partner out there on center ice. Good times!
Only looking at 1988 on, since that's when I started watching:
I'm surprised this one hasn't come up yet, but I'd nominate Petrenko's 1992 win as the most underwhelming. He was a great skater, but he won with a mediocre performance to a program I think he'd been using for three years. Even Wylie's better performance had a few minor flaws. That was not a great night of men's skating.
I'd like to forget the 2002 pairs event ever happened, but that isn't the fault of any of the skaters.
I'd agree with N&K in dance. 2006 was a ho-hum dance year. D&V were the nice, bright spot.
Tech-wise, Arakawa's 2006 win. Didn't she only only have five triples? Lovely in every other way, but this was not a great ladies' event.[/QUOTE]
so true...she had 3x3x3 and did not need to really compete given sasha's mistakes. A shame because her practices showed her athletic prowess. She did not have to go for it-she chose clean ho-hum for an unmemorable win. She is a beautiful skater, really lovely, but her gold will never be replayed or talked of. She should have done more-kinda cowardly win. Still, she did have an arsenal she did not use. too bad for posterity!
Sale and Pelletier are not deplorable, nasty and vile. Attila the Hun, maybe so, but not S&P. They are just figure skaters.
True. Those are the Wolfgang Schwarz adjectives. If you use these for S&P, what do you have left for Schwarz?
Sale and Pelletier are not deplorable, nasty and vile. Attila the Hun, maybe so, but not S&P. They are just figure skaters.