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gkelly said:This was 1993. Five different triples was still a pretty big deal
Well I have to disagree with this mindset. If that's what the judges were thinking, they were simply wrong. Midori Ito had already set the standard of a 7 Triple program several years earlier. Any program with less than 7 Triples should have a lower base maximum score...at least 2/10 of a point per Triple not completed. Which means a 5 Triple program should never receive more than a 5.6 (unless there were a Triple Axle, Quad, or a very hard jump combination in there). That should have been Baiul's "base" score for her technical routine - a 5.6 if she did it perfectly. It's even nice to assume a 5.6 as her base considering she didn't do any combination jumps that included a triple. Taking 5.6 as her max and then deducting .1 for the minor mistakes she made, 5.5 should have been her technical score at both the 1993 Worlds and 1994 Olympics.