Any jump is a risk because so much can go wrong with them. If it is a risk - it's the balance between getting the highest points for executing the hardest jump compared with the penalty for not executing it properly. I'm all for Brian getting those points when he actually lands it no he didn't fall - that's about the only thing he didn't do. He did under-rotate the triple toe - not enough for it to be downgraded. Look at the GEO criteria (which i finally managed to find on the ISU site! http://isu.sportcentric.net/db//files/serve.php?id=934):
The guidelines say for the combination jump:
Stepping out on the landing of the second jump -2 - GOE He clearly, undeniably stepped out of the second jump in the combination. That cannot be questioned - not a single judge should have awarded anything greater than -2, clearly they did as he only lost 2.2 points for the combo.
One/both jumps under-rotated up to 1/4 rev (not downgraded) -1 or -2.
More subjective but on the Eurosport footage Chris Howarth commented that he wanted to look at the triple toe to see if he got the rotation - the slow motion clearly showed he was less 1/4 rev short but he was short.
Touch down with one hand or free foot -1
Again - undeniably he touched down with his hand on the landing of the quad.
Weak landing (on toe, wrong edge) -1
He landed the quad on the toe hence the free hand down, and he landed the triple toe on the wrong edge - that caused the step out.
I fail to see why a jump combination with that many errors should come up still scoring more than the base value of any of the harder 3/3 combination.
Ant
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