Article - "Figure skating ... no stranger to scandal"

[Geesesk8]

From the article: "... with television ratings down, has the one viable change figure skating made - the highly technical, jump-heavy and precise, if confounding, scoring system - made the skaters too mechanical and the audience too confused? Has that new system convinced the public the sport is not fixed?"

From MercuryNews, 1/19/08 -
"Figure skating has been no stranger to scandal"
http://www.mercurynews.com/sports/ci_8018278?nclick_check=1

 

[merrybari]

Very interesting read! Thanks.

 

[skatergirl45]

Thank you!
The new system may have convinced the public that the sport is NOT fixed but the public cannot understand who wins anymore..........
Is that a good trade off?

 

[Pixie Cut]

This article has so many factual mistakes it's laughable. I think my favorite is that Baiul is skating with the Champions on Ice tour, a tour that in effect no longer exists and when it did exist she last skated with it eight years ago.

 

[Geesesk8]

This article has so many factual mistakes it's laughable. I think my favorite is that Baiul is skating with the Champions on Ice tour, a tour that in effect no longer exists and when it did exist she last skated with it eight years ago.

I guess the article should have said: "skated with ...." which she did years ago.

 

[Pixie Cut]

I guess the article should have said: "skated with ...." which she did years ago.

Also noted that Nicole Bobek skating with COI from 2000-2004. I suppose that is correct, since she skated with Champions from 1995 to 2004 and that includes the years 2000 to 2004.