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I personally think that the ISU is doing the best it can at making a tasty soup out of all the weird and wonderful vegatables that it has to work with. Juggling all the aspects of figure skating and at the same time accommodating a smorgasbord of individual opinions and perceptions -- this can't be easy.Yet... like I said, I am talking about something more decisive/dividing here. And I don't know how a sport can deal with that, when the rules are understood so fundamentally different. But, since nobody else seems to see a big problem there, maybe I'm overestimating the topic.
One place where I think (I am the asparagus) the ISU could help themselves is to encourage judges to give out more 0 GOEs on the hardest jumps. If you do a quad Lutz that is satisfactory (but not extraordinary) in all respects and does not contain any of the listed errors, that's what 0 GOE should mean. The skater's reward is in the base value -- no need to bump it up by 50% just because it is hard.
A few years ago (2017?) Mikhail Kolyda, in a short program, did the best quad Lutz in the history of the sport.
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Quadruple Lutz Mikhail Kolyada
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Two of the judges gave him 0 GOE. This was correct. The rules required that the solo jumpin be preceded by steps. Kolyda's did not fulfill this reauirement and the deduction just balanced the exquisite perfection of the jump itself. (Seven judges gave positive GOE anyway -- I probably would have, too.
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