I did read wally's post and what you are saying is not what I think he was implying.
I am a big fan of Mao's skating and admire her fighting spirit so if I don't agree with the rule change it is not because I am against Mao or for Yuna. Actually I am for Mirai
As to holding the sport back I find that absurd when only one skater is attempting a 3A in her SP.
If one wished to say it is holding Mao back it might feel more truthful to me.
Raising the value of the 3A (again) is not the same thing as changing the axel requirements in the SP.
I think you make a fair enough point that the rule changes might not benefit any particular skater but I can't help feeling the axel change is an attempt to do just that.
Janet thanks for the thoughtful post. I too am for Mirai. The new rules may benefit her b/c of the spiral sequence as stated by Wally. Who knows , maybe the ISU tech committee intended to help Mao (tht still is a big stretch to me). But then why? She is just the OSM, I would think the ISU tech committee will do everything possible to encourge the OGM stay 4 more yrs. I think even if the committee intended to help Mao, it may not happen in reality. She can not do two 3as in the sp, and currently she is already attempting one 3a in combination. If she follows the rule, she will be substituing the 3a for 2a that is all.
originally posted by Wallylutz
Not sure, with only 4 Triples to work with, she will end up having to either include the Triple Loop and risk an error on that jump or downgrade the 7th jumping pass to something like a Double Flip. That's about 5 points of TES that is at risk here. This is not a trivial change for her.
It the rule change forces Yuna to include the 3lo in her program that is not a bad thing for the sports. I for one am tired of the past 2 OGM being loopless in the competition. I guess in arakawa's case she missed the jump at olys, and Yuna was able to take advantage of the rules to exclude the triple loop. I am not advocating Tara like 3l/3l, but at the very least an OGM should be able to do a triple loop. This is good for the sports, and the sports is greater/ bigger than any one skater
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