ISU boss has driven skating toward a ditch
http://www.chicagotribune.com/sport...ting-toward-a-ditch-20140602,0,4758221.column
http://www.chicagotribune.com/sport...ting-toward-a-ditch-20140602,0,4758221.column
Usual anti Russian overtones from Hersh.
Actually I think it's the controversies that attract more viewers. Remember Tonya Harding?
Other than noting that both the United States and Russia skating federations have called for an end to anonymous judging (and a picture caption of Russian President Vladimir Putin), Russia isn't mentioned anywhere in the article.
Draw your own conclusions.
I've said it and I will say it again.
Either the scoring system gets simplified and judging anonymity ends, thereby making the sport more transparent and accessible to fans, or the sport will die.
The people in charge of the sport do not want it to be more transparent and accessible, because they are corrupt and relish their ability to fix the results.
And that is why the ISU continues to drive figure skating towards the ditch.
Actually I think it's the controversies that attract more viewers. Remember Tonya Harding?
And there were more cheating at that time, at least that we've known of.We had before the most simplified scoring system as you can get, and there was no judging anonymity. What did that produced? This one.
And there were more cheating at that time, at least that we've known of.
I am not a fan of PCS inflation, but well, at least in CoP, we know which jump value which score.
Cinq is only a part of the problem.
Just out of curiosity. Is there any article, from these big journalist and experts, where they do criticise their own country for not doing enough for their FS?
Exactly, the corruption extends far downward, I feel. But it starts at the top...
Phil Hersh occasionally criticizes the USFSA for its decisions. He somewhat took the side of Mirai Nagasu when the USFSA left her off the Olympic team. He pestered the USFSA into penalizing Rachael Flatt for not telling anyone about her injury prior to 2011 Worlds. A few minor things like that.
As for "doing something for figure skating," it is not clear what a journalist might urge. It's not like the USFSA is trying to produce also-rans or to get figure skating off TV for good.