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Does that mean that any scoring changes in June will have to keep Lysacek the winner of this years Gold? Like if they increased quads which Plushenko did two of the new score of it could not make him the winner of gold? So what did Lysacek do that they would also increase the value of? Level 4 spins? Instead of 10 percent bonus after halfway point 12% 15%?
I doubt that the ISU will make any major changes this year.
There is, however, a certain sentiment that skaters like Plushenko and Joubert are more the standard of what men's figure skating should aspire to than Lysacek and Chan, and that quads should be more highly valued.
We'll see.
cosmos said:Well, then, we don't have to change the system, I believe, because the best skater (YuNa Kim) wins under current system.
But, some people think that Mao is the best skater and she has to win. (IMO, this is the background motivation for all these disputes over the scoring system here)
Same argument again. Who is the best skater?
Again, I do not expect any major changes.
The great majority of judges, officials and skating insiders believe that, yes, Yu-na Kim is the best skater. There does not seem to be much controversy about that, except on fan boards.
We can easily see that this is what the skating establishment thinks by looking at the GOEs that Kim gets on almost every element, and by the fact that the judges give her uniformly high PCS, rain or shine, good performance (TEB) or bad (Worlds).
Even so, some people think that a triple Axel is pretty cool and maybe deserves a few tenths of a point more. I do not think this will happen this year, but it might happen farther down the line.