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One thing I disagree with, under the old system a clean program was very important and for good reason; the flow and beauty of the program wasn't disrupted. It has little value under CoP. Also, under the old system Irina would not be getting inflated PCS. It's not that Irina doesn't deserve reasonably solid PCS but they shouldn't even approach Sasha's or Michelle's. I think the new system is unwieldy and difficult to comprehend for people who have followed figure skating for years, and for the average viewer as well. It was a bad fix, for a non-existant problem, by the ISU because they didn't know how to stand by the original and right result during the pairs competition at SLC (I couldn't care less about the French judge situation-it had nothing to do with anything except to give the Canadians a reason to jump up and down)). I can only think of a few times I didn't totally agree with the outcomes, and even then, I understood how they arrived at them.
But you know her most important point was that the quality of execution is completely ignored. I totally agree with that observation and that is why the sport is being destroyed. It doesn't matter if the jump is beautiful, only that it is done.
One thing I disagree with, under the old system a clean program was very important and for good reason; the flow and beauty of the program wasn't disrupted. It has little value under CoP. Also, under the old system Irina would not be getting inflated PCS. It's not that Irina doesn't deserve reasonably solid PCS but they shouldn't even approach Sasha's or Michelle's. I think the new system is unwieldy and difficult to comprehend for people who have followed figure skating for years, and for the average viewer as well. It was a bad fix, for a non-existant problem, by the ISU because they didn't know how to stand by the original and right result during the pairs competition at SLC (I couldn't care less about the French judge situation-it had nothing to do with anything except to give the Canadians a reason to jump up and down)). I can only think of a few times I didn't totally agree with the outcomes, and even then, I understood how they arrived at them.
But you know her most important point was that the quality of execution is completely ignored. I totally agree with that observation and that is why the sport is being destroyed. It doesn't matter if the jump is beautiful, only that it is done.
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