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Modern judging favours quads, not clean triples.
Yes. It's right there in the scale of values. Do a quad toe, you get 9.50 points Do a clean triple toe, you get 4.20 points. It's just arithmetic.
Since this is a thread about ladies, I think it it fair to mention that every major competition this year has been won by a skater presenting a quad or a triple Axel. No one else has a chance. Trusova, Shcherbakova and Kostornia won every Grand Prix event and swept the Final. They also swept Europeans. Of the non-Russian ladies Rika Kihira and Young You have landed triple Axels in their medal-winning efforts. Alyssa Liu won U.S. Nationals by doing two triple Axels, and she at least tried a quad Lutz, completely annihilating the field despite more "artistic" efforts by Bradie Tennell and Mariah Bell.
It is simply a fact that this year in senior ladies, there was no exception to the rule that you can't win without a triple Axel or a quad. Whether that is good or bad, that is a separate question, but there is no denying the truth of the statement.
That is not the same as saying that if you do a big jump then you automatically place higher than all the skaters who don't. None of the skaters I have mentioned here are deficient in either blade-to-ice skills or presentation.
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