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- Feb 5, 2004
Wow. This is a total catfight in here. Anyways, I think those who oppose rule changes saying that those who favor rule changes simply want their favorite skaters to win is just being hypocritical because obviously for some posters who oppose it they think rule changes will negatively affect their favorite skater. It's the exact same intention. :sheesh:
While that certainly might be the case with some posters it certainly isn't for me. I've said several times over and over, that this last quadrennial of ladies skaters have made my interest in the ladies evaporate completely. I'm not vested in any particualr skater at all, I enjoy some of Yuna and Moa's programmes together with some of Joannie's and also Lepisto. I watch (through fingers often!) Jenna McKorkell's to bang the home drum, but even watching those programmes I don't feel the excitement I did when Kwan and Slutskaya were competing.
To bring it back to the proposed rule changes, most people have seemed to have a knee jerk reaction to the outcome of the SP (and presumably the LP but i've not waded into that car crash yet!) and I have used not only the rules and the scale of value, but also suggestions from other posters (like gkelly) as to how the rules might be revised and given justification for them. IMO saying things like 2/2 combinations should be banned, shows a great amount of ignorance of the sport of figure skating, the way it is used, the grass roots way in which COP is being implmented in most countries. As I and many others have pointed out COP is not just used to score the podium at worlds and Olympic it is used in all levels of competition and "banning" anything is against the spirit of the cumulative scoring system that COP is. I have yet to read a single justification for the proposed rule changes (ban 2/2 jumps, increase the value of the 3A) other than the unspken "because that way Mao will win". Accusations of Kim's lead being unfair, despite it being clear in the protocls why the scores were made.
Most importantly though i wrote a fairly lengthy post explaining the changes that i thought would be sensible, without mentioning either Mao or Kim, but that seemed to get lost in the crowd because it wouldn't catapult Mao to the top
Ant