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Oh, is that by any chance the same guy as here?? :think:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IPqkH9VSLlY&t=231
(always had me wondering why a, I assume, stranger from the audience was hugging her...)
No it's not him.
Oh, is that by any chance the same guy as here?? :think:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IPqkH9VSLlY&t=231
(always had me wondering why a, I assume, stranger from the audience was hugging her...)
It is often shown on TV when the reaction of the stands is shown. At the stage in France he was with Alina's Russian group of fans. (Here Peter is standing right under the inscription "France" in the left corner of the screen) They say that he's a good guy))
So don’t be offended by him too much - he is just big fan
Isn't a lot of this "change the rules, change the scoring ... talk that goes on also people trying to impose their likes on figure skating as a whole?
I think it is more that the ISU has it's own vision of what the sport should be. To me, the current situation can be compared to the state of ladies' skating in 1984. Elaine Zayak burst on the scene as the most prodigious jumper ever seen. At the 1984 World championships she landed 6 (count 'em, SIX) triple jumps in her LP! It was impossible not to give her the gold medal.
But at the ISU Congress later that same year they discussed the fact that 4 of those jumps were toe loops / toe Walleys repeated over and over. They passed the Zayak Rules and later came up with various versions of the Balanced Program Requirements in order to acknowledge that just jumping, jumping, jumping is not what distinguishes an outstanding figure skating performance. The rules that are in place now (no quads in the SP, only one repeated quad, only 7 jumping passes allowed altogether, etc.) are consistent with the concerns that they had back in 1984.