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A real overreaction from Russia now that its ice dance programs is dead
Its not dead, its rebuilding, and that's quite and overstatement for a nation who have NEVER find ished off the Olympic podium.
A real overreaction from Russia now that its ice dance programs is dead
OT but there was this ballet skiing at two olympics as a demonstration sport. I wish it became an Olympic sport
OT but there was this ballet skiing at two olympics as a demonstration sport. I wish it became an Olympic sport
Holy moley! That's amazing!!!! I've never seen that before... it would be an incredible Olympic sport.
Here's another clip. This is sensational... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fG_nfFZWtVw I have no idea why it was never part of the Olympics -- it's skiing meets gymnastics meets figure skating.
Ice dance is the most boring; don't care what you say but to the untrained eye it is absolutely boring. I don't really understand why, however. Taking away Olympics from this sport ks destroyong it altogether... Are
Antonio is kind of right. Ice dancing is the most boring or least exciting to the untrained, uneducated or uninterested person watching skating - sorry but that is the truth. I doesn't have the tricks and all.
This rumor was started by Didier Gailhaguet, whose stock has dipped recently after Marie-Reine Le Gougne called him a bunch of names in Le Monde. He avoids the newspapers this time (because that L'Equipe article alleging USA-Russia vote swapping in Sochi is still fresh) and instead gets his faithful servant David Molina to start the whispers on social media. David Molina’s many judging assignments and monitoring P/B before the Olympics suggest he’s in good favor with Didier, yet is apparently still considered highly credible by the rest of the skating community and lives in Switzerland allowing the possibility of having high-level IOC sources. The entire skating community is panicking.
Then either
A) Didier makes some public statement condemning the big bad IOC and pledging to save the ice dance. The IOC decides not to get rid of ice dance because that was never their intention, but Didier still takes credit (I hear that’s something he likes to do). Grateful federations vote for him in 2016, even the North Americans who are already dumb enough to jump to the conclusion that the IOC only wants to get rid of ice dance now that it’s dominated by North Americans; they welcome a Euro ally (never mind that Didier just wants 2018/2022 ice dance golds for himself).
or
B) Didier plays conservative, does nothing. IOC doesn’t remove ice dance. Nevertheless, seeds of doubt have been planted in the skating community which has always been insecure about ice dance’s status as an Olympic sport. Didier makes his ISU presidential campaign platform all about protecting and promoting the ice dance. He could even get the support of some speedskaters if they’ve been led to believe that this is a question of synchro replacing ice dance (as half of the figure skating community has already assumed). Figure skaters and speedskaters have to share practice/competition ice at the Olympics, and synchro practices take up more time than ice dance which would threaten speedskaters’ limited practice time.
yeah and the worst is that not becoming an olympic sport actually killed the sport completely. It was removed of the freestyle skiing association and no competitions are held anymore since 2000 :/
yeah and the worst is that not becoming an olympic sport actually killed the sport completely. It was removed of the freestyle skiing association and no competitions are held anymore since 2000 :/
Holy moley! That's amazing!!!! I've never seen that before... it would be an incredible Olympic sport.
Here's another clip. This is sensational... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fG_nfFZWtVw I have no idea why it was never part of the Olympics -- it's skiing meets gymnastics meets figure skating.
21 May 2015 - Lausanne, Switzerland
There is absolutely no truth to this. The review of the 2018 Olympic Winter Games program is currently underway and a final decision will be made during the next meeting of the IOC Executive Board on June 7-8, 2015. The IOC confirms that within the review process the ISU has made a number of proposals which do not include the removal of Ice Dance from the Olympic Program.
Oh, thank god....
:happydance:
but now the Didier runs for ISU president as savior of ice dance conspiracy theories look kind of credible.
I will be really thankful if somebody could do some background on him, I know nothing about him and how he works, and it all seems really like a complicated argument for a book.
Would he be better than Speedy for figure skating?
.Georges and Suzanne initially told the media that their daughter had been born on the island of Réunion, because, as David Wallechinsky's Complete Book of the Winter Olympics explains, they thought this origin sounded more "exotic". When Surya approached the age of 18 and began researching her birth history, George and Suzanne admitted that Surya's biological mother had been from the island but that Surya herself had not been born there. Didier Gailhaguet, who was Bonaly's first coach of her competitive career, admitted fabricating the story because he thought it would interest the press.[1]
Gailhaguet was a central figure in the 2002 Olympic Winter Games figure skating scandal, in which French judge Marie-Reine Le Gougne said that she had judged wrongly in the pairs competition under pressure from Gailhaguet, who was at that time the president of the French federation. Witnesses of Le Gougne's statement were Sally-Anne Stapleford (Great Britain), Britta Lindgren (Sweden), Walburga Grimm (Germany) and Jon Jackson (USA). Gailhaguet's chauffeur in Salt Lake City additionally testified to having overheard evidence of his involvement on the scandal. Le Gougne later rescinded her statement and said she had been pressured to make it.
Didier Gailhaguet was excluded for any International Skating Union event for 3 years, beginning 30 April 2002, and has been excluded as an ISU council member. He resigned as president of the French Ice Sports Federation on 12 May 2004, but was re-elected to that position in December 2007
I will be really thankful if somebody could do some background on him, I know nothing about him and how he works, and it all seems really like a complicated argument for a book.
Would he be better than Speedy for figure skating?