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- Jun 21, 2003
About Mr. Button's lament that speed skaters are spending all the hard-earned money that figure skaters bring in, this complaint has been around for decsades. It used to be true, but now there isn't any money to fight over anyway.
As for forming a separate organizarion for figure skating only, or otherwise trying to seceed from or to reform the ISU, the problem is that the ISU is the favorite of the International POlympic Committee (Cinquanta is a member, since 1996). Any new organization would have to forego the Olympics.
The part of Mr. Button's piece that I agree with is his objection that the ISU judging system tries to quantify things that are natually qualities, rather than quantities. This leads to the round peg in a square hole that is the IJS.
As for forming a separate organizarion for figure skating only, or otherwise trying to seceed from or to reform the ISU, the problem is that the ISU is the favorite of the International POlympic Committee (Cinquanta is a member, since 1996). Any new organization would have to forego the Olympics.
The part of Mr. Button's piece that I agree with is his objection that the ISU judging system tries to quantify things that are natually qualities, rather than quantities. This leads to the round peg in a square hole that is the IJS.