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Does it? if a skater has trained most of their career under it, they'd be more conditioned for it...
Does it? if a skater has trained most of their career under it, they'd be more conditioned for it...
I'm not blaming CoP for injuries and I don't think there's more questionable calls than before. I do believe figure skating is very demanding physicially and there's a lot of potential for repetitive stress injuries (not to mention various other injuries and accidents). If I understood correctly, you suggested that training under CoP would make an athlete better conditioned and reduce the likelihood of injury; I'm not sure this would be the case. Good technique might help avoid some injuries, and conditioning can help avoid on-ice problems; hopefully better training methods will help skaters stay healthy over time. But this does not change the fact that the human body is not designed to rotate in the air and land on a very thin blade, or to contort itself into whatever wacky positions spirals and spins requires.but these injuries were happening before the CoP - in the case of Alexei Yagudin, Tara Lipinski, and Evan Lysacek (who was having hip and knee issues in 2005 and it was already a well known problem from what I understood). Kurt Browning and Todd Eld back issues in the 1992 Olympics, IIRC... these issues are nothing new.
So blaming the CoP for everything (from injuries, to the wrong person winning, to global warming) seems a little unfair... it depends on the individual skater, how they're trained, and other outside factors as much as it is the pounding out jumps on the ice.