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After the Team Event, should it have been Individual Ice Dance before Mens/Pairs/Ladies?
Part of me is wondering why after the Team Event they didn't schedule Individual ice dance earlier in the Olympic program to allow pairs/men's/ladies to skate later? (Obviously with ice dance being put earlier in the Team Event.)
Not to trivialize how hard ice dance is, but it's not a marquee event, and the teams in ice dance are far less likely to have a splatfest than pairs or singles, even with little recovery time.
The pairs seemed to be relatively okay (especially the SP), but the men were a disaster - with laboured performances by some of those who were in the Team Event. Perhaps it would have made more sense to create more time for the singles disciplines to recover? I mean, the ladies could be a splatfest and prove me wrong, but intuitively this makes sense to put the athletes with the least chance for marred performances up front to give the high-risk discipline (i.e. singles) athletes more time to recover.
Part of me is wondering why after the Team Event they didn't schedule Individual ice dance earlier in the Olympic program to allow pairs/men's/ladies to skate later? (Obviously with ice dance being put earlier in the Team Event.)
Not to trivialize how hard ice dance is, but it's not a marquee event, and the teams in ice dance are far less likely to have a splatfest than pairs or singles, even with little recovery time.
The pairs seemed to be relatively okay (especially the SP), but the men were a disaster - with laboured performances by some of those who were in the Team Event. Perhaps it would have made more sense to create more time for the singles disciplines to recover? I mean, the ladies could be a splatfest and prove me wrong, but intuitively this makes sense to put the athletes with the least chance for marred performances up front to give the high-risk discipline (i.e. singles) athletes more time to recover.