Yeah, but having a solid, reliable triple axel at the age of 26 is also almost unheard of. She could be creating a new path for womens' figure skating. And she can always abandon the 3A to focus on PCS when she feels her body can't handle that much jumping anymore.
^ And then you could try to figure out what the lyrics mean.
Adam Rippon asked Amber Glenn if she would try for another Olympics in 4 years and she laughed her head off and said, “That’s so cute!” It’s not in the cards for her, but I believe she should keep on going since she’s skated better these last 2 seasons than ever before in her career. There was footage I saw of her in another interview and she was excited for the upcoming World Championships next month in Prague. I wonder if she would at least consider competing through the 2028 season. It would be really exciting to see her try and rack up some World Championships hardware!
Thanks for the response. But I am still somewhat puzzled as to the "why." What benefit is it to the ISU if the champion gets a boost and wins another medal, or if the upstart challenger skates great and pulls off an upset? It seems like either way would be equally good publicity for the sport.
I'm not so sure the best skaters always get the highest marks. IMO the recent ice dance results are a case in point.
This also has relevance to the questions surrounding the effect of the "trimmed mean." Nowadays, it hardly ever makes any difference -- if you throw out a score that was somewhat lower than average and a score that was somewhat higher than average, that doesn't do much in determining who won, and frankly is not very useful in drawing conclusions about bias, collusion, etc., either.
I think this is partly true. Also because the judges are sitting there, needing to constantly look at the overall skating as well as the individual elements, constantly needing to write down the score for each element after it happens, I think I can't always blame the for defaulting to past memory, because it's easy to miss thing. "oh this guy usually has good steps. therefore, he must have performed them well here too. I'll play it safe and give him +3 anyway."
I'm sorry, what????
Confession: I've never liked MacArthur Park. Not even for Richard Harris or Donna Summer.
Ice Dance is very interesting in that regard. It used to be that the finishing order was pretty much pre-determined before the skating began (and you could always count on Yuri Balkov to toe-tap out the order in case some of the other judges didn't get the memo.)
Or the times when a judge would accidentally get the cards reversed and hold up 3.5 instead of 5.3. For figures it was the judges themselves, which was a more serious error than when they used "card girls" standing out on the ice, each representing a specific judge who had told their girl what numbers to hold up. Then it was just embarrassing if she got the numbers reversed and her judge called out a correction from their seats behind the boards.
Google "Wolfgang Schwarz."I'm sorry, what????
I always got stuck on the line about the cake. What happened to the recipe? Did you just forget which cookbook it was in? Was it a recipe cut out of the newspaper and got lost? Were you just improvising and it turned out surprisingly well? I don't think I've ever noticed any other lyrics in the whole song.Confession: I've never liked MacArthur Park. Not even for Richard Harris or Donna Summer.
What a... fun...piece of figure skating loreGoogle "Wolfgang Schwarz."
It's supposed to represent a lost relationship/love. In this Wikipedia article, there's a quote from Jimmy Webb where he says that everything in the song is real. Including the cake. Again, who knows?
No offense, but I wish I hadn't. Good lord.Google "Wolfgang Schwarz."
I'm suffering from a pleasant malady: The MacArthur Park Earworm syndrome. I heard it's self-limiting, but I wonder how long it lasts.
Were they... not allowed to change the card? This is a serious question btw, this is such strange news to me.
