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- Jan 25, 2013
Based on the women's SP, Finland's got better mushrooms than Austria at this time of year.No, this started with a commentator saying the judges must have consumed too many (presumably of the wrong kind of) mushrooms to give a skater a particularly high score, and then caught on. So mushrooms are something a Fed supplies to the judges in different amounts depending on its support for a particular skater or skater's coach. Feds with different power have different amounts of mushrooms to go around and must apportion them between their country's skaters. Minor Federations don't have any and their skaters must go mushroomless which is why they are generally not scored highly.