I tried five times to get the blog from Phil Hersh to post but it just won't go through. Here is a small sample of what Evan and then Johnny had to say about the scoring system.
``Regardless of how I feel, the truth is the 6.0 was a brand for figure skating worldwide, and it became a commonly used phrase: `I would give it a 6.0.''' Lysacek said. ``Anyone could flip on the TV and know a 5.9 is pretty good and a 4.1 is not very good, so it was easy to follow, to cheer your favorites.
``The sport of figure skating has become some kind of national math contest, and this judging system is killing the sport,'' Weir said. ``The free program is supposed to be free, to put an image out there and tell a story, and it's next to impossible to do, unless you write the whole story on your costume. . .The art of figure skating is lost because of this judging system
``Regardless of how I feel, the truth is the 6.0 was a brand for figure skating worldwide, and it became a commonly used phrase: `I would give it a 6.0.''' Lysacek said. ``Anyone could flip on the TV and know a 5.9 is pretty good and a 4.1 is not very good, so it was easy to follow, to cheer your favorites.
``The sport of figure skating has become some kind of national math contest, and this judging system is killing the sport,'' Weir said. ``The free program is supposed to be free, to put an image out there and tell a story, and it's next to impossible to do, unless you write the whole story on your costume. . .The art of figure skating is lost because of this judging system
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