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- Oct 22, 2005
are we talking about skaters who would do well based on their current skill sets or those who could have done well if they had to practice it? Because if its the latter then i would say everyone has a chance of doing well since those who do well in figures dont always do well in free skating and vice versa.
You obviously watched Midori Ito skate figures. She ruined her own opportunity in 1990 to repeat as World Champion due to a huge, HUGE mistake on the second or third figure where she had a ginormous STOP on a turn. She skated off that figure looking shell shocked and I think placed 12th on that figure. She WORKED and WORKED and WORKED at them because she wasn't a natural at them. Figures are incredibly difficult to master and take a different skill set than FS.
Also, a lot of the current crowd wouldn't do that well in figures because it's incredibly BORING to most to master.