I don't like the idea and I don't think that it would make the sport more popular, quite the opposite would happen imho.
When I have enough time, I love to watch all the skating I can but when I don't have the time I only watch the top five or even only the top three ... and I'm a figure skating fan.
The casual viewer would be bored and overwhelmed by too many competitons.
If certain age groups have an advantage, there has to be another way to cope with the problem. I have an idea, but I'm not going to repeat it again, it was very unpopular in this forum and it's offtopic in any case. I'm not going to hijack this thread. :roll5:
Reading the Ski Jumping thread in the Le Café forum I remembered that, about 20 years ago, ski jumping experts thought that women could compete with the men, because a few girls were exceptionally talented. One even compared it to showjumping. The coach Innauer thought that women would to well. It didn't turn out that way. Once they hit puberty they just could compete with the boys any longer. Now the women have their own ski jumping events. Those events are very slowly becoming more popular, mostly because of the mixed team event, which is going to be an Olympic event in 2022. But a ski jump is over in a couple of seconds, you don't need hour long attention span in order to watch a whole competition.
But this ski jumping thread made me realize that it's really very very unlikely, that those quad jumping girls are going to be able to do those tricks in, let's say, 3 years. Fleeting stars ... and that's the way it's supposed to be in Russia anyway, so many young talents until parents will realize that this really isn't a career option any longer, because there is too much competition and then the problem will dissolve on it's own.
When I have enough time, I love to watch all the skating I can but when I don't have the time I only watch the top five or even only the top three ... and I'm a figure skating fan.
The casual viewer would be bored and overwhelmed by too many competitons.
If certain age groups have an advantage, there has to be another way to cope with the problem. I have an idea, but I'm not going to repeat it again, it was very unpopular in this forum and it's offtopic in any case. I'm not going to hijack this thread. :roll5:
Reading the Ski Jumping thread in the Le Café forum I remembered that, about 20 years ago, ski jumping experts thought that women could compete with the men, because a few girls were exceptionally talented. One even compared it to showjumping. The coach Innauer thought that women would to well. It didn't turn out that way. Once they hit puberty they just could compete with the boys any longer. Now the women have their own ski jumping events. Those events are very slowly becoming more popular, mostly because of the mixed team event, which is going to be an Olympic event in 2022. But a ski jump is over in a couple of seconds, you don't need hour long attention span in order to watch a whole competition.
But this ski jumping thread made me realize that it's really very very unlikely, that those quad jumping girls are going to be able to do those tricks in, let's say, 3 years. Fleeting stars ... and that's the way it's supposed to be in Russia anyway, so many young talents until parents will realize that this really isn't a career option any longer, because there is too much competition and then the problem will dissolve on it's own.