Shocking news - proposal to eliminate short programs

fairly4 said:

they should pay the judges through the sponsors. have sponsors pay the judge plane fare, & hotel rooms and maybe a meal or two.

that way the sponsors could go directly to the judges and the judges anomyously could tell them why/why not. and the sponsors through their product could tell the public more about the sport.

cheating/unfair, political . he is right about top down, but it effects all the competitions level b's, junior, seniors,
quid pro quo goes from one to the other.

it is harder to spot, but people notice it

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HA! And you think sponsors with skater spokespeople would have, like, zero influence on who wins?

Could they not keep the short programme but use it as a qualifying event for the free programme? After all, most sports have a qualifying round.

The top 8 pairs, 10 dance couples and 12 individual skaters could the go into the free programme with the scores from the short erased.

Throughout figure skating history too much has been decided before we get to the free skate, with skaters left with large deficits they cannot make up.

Imagine the top 12 skaters going into the free with no points carried over - best on the night wins. Skating needs to consider ideas like this instead of being suck in the dark ages.