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- Jun 21, 2003
With Skate America starting in a couple of days, do you think we will see a change in strategy in how the skaters approach the short program this year? In the past, especially for the ladies, the maxim was, you can't win the contest with the SP, but you can lose it. That is, if you were one of the top skaters going for gold, you had to play it safe in the SP because under ordinal scoring third place was as good as first, but one mistake and you're out of the running.
Now, with cumulative scores under the CoP, every fraction of a point counts. Plus, the skaters have an extra 10 seconds specifically to do more intricate and complete in-betweens , etc. Do you think these changes will result in more adventuresome programs?
BTW, other boards are discussing Michelle's short program music, recently announced as the adagio from the ballet Spartacus by Khachaturian, rather than the tango from the Moulin Rouge soundtrack . Now we’ll have to wait until Nationals to see it -- unless she changes her mind!
Link to the MK Forum: http://p216.ezboard.com/fmichellekw...sageRange?topicID=23060.topic&start=1&stop=20
Now, with cumulative scores under the CoP, every fraction of a point counts. Plus, the skaters have an extra 10 seconds specifically to do more intricate and complete in-betweens , etc. Do you think these changes will result in more adventuresome programs?
BTW, other boards are discussing Michelle's short program music, recently announced as the adagio from the ballet Spartacus by Khachaturian, rather than the tango from the Moulin Rouge soundtrack . Now we’ll have to wait until Nationals to see it -- unless she changes her mind!
Link to the MK Forum: http://p216.ezboard.com/fmichellekw...sageRange?topicID=23060.topic&start=1&stop=20