Then a single person - you, who disagree with those imaginary 5000 - are just as irrelevant, agreed?
Err, there has been at least one decidedly weaker competition in the GP since 2014 if not earlier, plus headscratchingly wild differences in judging between GPs. SKAM this year (and last to a lesser extent) made it worse by the lack of audience, organisation screwups and general messiness, but it seems to me to have b-all to do with certain people not being there, especially given the certain people are not exactly setting the world on fire in their own comps.
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After all it's the reason while no challenge is allowed in Figure Skating, but we must admit that it's backfiring because judges' blinking has become so selective, always the same skaters... and there comes the problem. Accepting an occasional judging error, if judging is fair, is somehow adding a part of alea, some may find it thrilling. In all sports one has a little bit of alea (including Figure Skating, for instance in which order the skaters start after the warmup or the resurfacing). We're not there anymore. I don't think that perfect impartiality has ever existed but we've come to an extreme.Man I just had random thoughts about what "a longer than baseball" sport figure skating would be if they had individual challenges on each jump anyone did during a competition and if they needed to run the challenges by some ISU tech advisor in headquarters (not local)
No. Only when everyone competes togther there is life because there is enough depth. Both streams are exhausting their athletes by trying to keep the full circuit with insufficient staff. Internationals run two junior grand prix, Russians run serf theater. This is the worst of both worlds, particularly considering the hypocrisy and unfairness that is going on with transfers and other nations, the judging that is becoming very different withiout competing interests to keep it more balanced. AIN has now been created and the only fair course of action towards athletes is to set it up in GP to stop making the athletes the ones to bear responsibility for everything that is wrong with the world. They, as individuals, should have access to competitions. A competitive athlete must compete to be at their best.
Athlètes indépendants neutres. When they get to be independent and neutral from state sponsored sports programs, we can talk.
In my view, state sponsorship actually creates a more fair access to sports than parents going broke, if they can afford it in the first place. So, no, I don't think this is a problem. If AIN has more success, maybe other states would help their athletes. They can at least release Belorussia. Because, like, why?
I agree with you 100%. I find that I have to mute my t.v. every time she begins to speak; I unmute between a skater's next move. Sometimes, she is still talking! I am becoming disillusioned with watching the sport because of her. I still like Johnny's commentary - most of the time he speaks only when necessary and gets to the point.
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