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Olympic Technical Panel Info

KKonas

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Re: Technical Panel Only: None of the Technical Panel at the individual events (not the team events), will have members from the countries whose skaters have placed in the top 5 at the 2013 World Championships.
 

drivingmissdaisy

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I hope whoever is on the ladies panels isn't a stickler for URs. I want to see some big scores and tough jumps rewarded!
 

Krislite

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So has the tech panel members been selected or is this "news" only about the restriction to non-top 5 country federation members?
 

bigsisjiejie

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Sounds purposeful in advance, not coincidental after-the-fact. In other words:

Men: No panelists from Canada, Kazahkstan, Spain, or Japan (another Canada was #5).
Women: No panelists from Korea, Italy, Japan or the USA (another Japan was #4).
Pairs: No panelists from Russia, Germany, Canada, or China (another Canada was #4)
Dance: No panelists from USA, Canada, Russia, or Italy (another Canada was #5)

Is this correct interpretation? Now trying to figure out which skaters this affects either beneficially or negatively.
 
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This is an excellent idea.

For the judging panels, historically it seems like they tried to go the other way. If there was a judge that was expected to be biased in one direction, that was balanced by another judge leaning the opposite way. This is better.
 

LauraV

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I sense an opportunity for France in Dance! I'll lay 10-1 odds Didier is scheming already. :popcorn:

Just kidding. I think......
 

GF2445

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I sense an opportunity for France in Dance! I'll lay 10-1 odds Didier is scheming already. :popcorn:

Just kidding. I think......

Apparently, it is most likely that Didier will become the next ISU president after Cinquanta. It will be fantastic for a figure skater to hold the top job again but knowing his history its going to be interesting. Hold onto your hats....
 

KKonas

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Sounds purposeful in advance, not coincidental after-the-fact. In other words:

Men: No panelists from Canada, Kazahkstan, Spain, or Japan (another Canada was #5).
Women: No panelists from Korea, Italy, Japan or the USA (another Japan was #4).
Pairs: No panelists from Russia, Germany, Canada, or China (another Canada was #4)
Dance: No panelists from USA, Canada, Russia, or Italy (another Canada was #5)

Is this correct interpretation? Now trying to figure out which skaters this affects either beneficially or negatively.

Yes, but only for the tech panel, not the judging panel or the Referee/Assistant Referee. The actual names of the potential tech panels have not been announced although I am sure each country has sent names of their tech specialists to the ISU.
 

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Re: Technical Panel Only: None of the Technical Panel at the individual events (not the team events), will have members from the countries whose skaters have placed in the top 5 at the 2013 World Championships.

Could someone provide the news source?

I believe the source is our own KKonas, longtime member of the professional media covering figure skating, who sometimes shares inside scoop with us before it is published elsewhere. Thanks to KKonas' original reporting, "you heard it here first" on none other than GS. :)
 

KKonas

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I believe the source is our own KKonas, longtime member of the professional media covering figure skating, who sometimes shares inside scoop with us before it is published elsewhere. Thanks to KKonas' original reporting, "you heard it here first" on none other than GS. :)

Thanks, golden411. My source is from a high level ISU judge. I know several.
 

Jaana

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I hope whoever is on the ladies panels isn't a stickler for URs. I want to see some big scores and tough jumps rewarded!

I want the technical panel to be very sharp, scores need to be deserved, definetely no UR´s. A jump is not tough, if it is underrotated.
 

CassAgain

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Mar 27, 2004
This seems like excellent news for Nathalie and Fabian. And they are due for a little good luck.
 

dorispulaski

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I would expect a Russian on the men's and/or the women's panel, I'd think.

Perhaps an American on the men's and/or pairs panel.

A Canadian on the women's panel.
 
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KKonas

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David Kirby has been nominated by US for tech specialist position in Pairs and Todd Goldstein for judge panel in Pairs, and Shawn Rhettstatt for judge panel in ice dance. Hopefully their names will be drawn.
 

thinspread

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I'm amazed by the amount of wishful/apprehensive thinking going on in this thread. No wonder figure skating is fast losing its popularity and credibility as a fairly judged/ruled sport, when the very fans of the sport are taking it for granted the anomalies/irregularities of judging in the sport. Another case of influenced or unfair judging in the Olympics in distorting the winning orders, it would be the nails on the coffin.

I hope we don't get to worry about a favorite panel composition, and us be alert, vigilant and outspoken againt influenced judging and rule making. People generally aren't worried about that kind of things in MLB, NBA, UEFA Champions League, and so forth. They've learned their lessons on what to do and what not to, to save their sports/events.
 

bigsisjiejie

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I'm amazed by the amount of wishful/apprehensive thinking going on in this thread. No wonder figure skating is fast losing its popularity and credibility as a fairly judged/ruled sport, when the very fans of the sport are taking it for granted the anomalies/irregularities of judging in the sport. Another case of influenced or unfair judging in the Olympics in distorting the winning orders, it would be the nails on the coffin.

I hope we don't get to worry about a favorite panel composition, and us be alert, vigilant and outspoken againt influenced judging and rule making. People generally aren't worried about that kind of things in MLB, NBA, UEFA Champions League, and so forth. They've learned their lessons on what to do and what not to, to save their sports/events.

Really? I don't see it that way at all. The causes of figure skating decline are way more complex than judging, so your analysis and conclusions are superficial at best. Your analogy to major team sports is also Huh? and as evidenced by plenty of scandal and chicanery in some of those sports (at no less than the governing body level in some--e.g. FIFA), so probably best not used as great templates for skating of what "fairness in sport" should mean. At any rate, scoring that is kept track of simply by balls achieved in goals and nets is a bit different than judging a complex collection of technical elements + performance/execution valuation.
 
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