Synchro9 Earns Its Place at the Alpes 2030

[bckabck]

Just finished watching the Rocker Skating Podcast video for the synchro 9. It was very good in stating what synchro 9 will be.

So far my opinion is that FIFA should stay in its lane. As of right now my opinion of synchro 9 has lowered a bit, but I’m still interested right now to see it in action and give it a chance.

 

[NanaPat]

of course, if synchro 9 works out well and then people understand how much better it could be for 12 or 16, it could change and we could get larger teams.. so that's a victory and I quite agree with this sentiment.

When artistic skating was first in the Olympics, it was just solos and duets. This was especially odd because the it was called synchronized swimming at the time and it is hard to picture how a solo can be "synchronized". The sport desperately wanted teams in from the beginning, but took what they could get. After 3 Olympics, team came in and replaced duet and solo. The following Olympics, duet was added back in. I believe that the duet entries have to swim on the team as well, so adding duets didn't add any total athletes.

Perhaps synchronized skating hopes to follow a similar trajectory, by starting with synchro9 and later replacing it with synchro12 or traditional synchro (16 member teams).

OT: my daughter, who did artistic swimming, thinks 8 is a much better team size than 9. Her proposal is to have one skater standing beside the boards pointing appreciatively while the other 8 skate. The more drastic alternative is shooting one skater as the team enters the ice.

 

[SmileHappy34]

What is syncro. 9.
Is it different from regular syncro.
Can Olympics cities add or delay sports to use
It important to them that sport

 

[midori green]

* maybe some ex or current skaters may pop up in this format( I haven't considered this possibility, cause synchro is so dependant on group skating skills)

What does this mean? Are currrent or recent elite dance, pairs, or singles skaters going to switch and try this discipline for the Olympic prospect? That would be a little sad for the dedicated synchro skaters who've been fighting for years to be included. But I guess synchro 9 is quite different from regular synchro, so why not have skaters adapt up as well as down?

 

[TontoK]

OT: my daughter, who did artistic swimming, thinks 8 is a much better team size than 9. Her proposal is to have one skater standing beside the boards pointing appreciatively while the other 8 skate. The more drastic alternative is shooting one skater as the team enters the ice.

Well, that's sure to drive up viewership! LOL

I like the way your daughter thinks. She seems like a "no half-measures" type of gal.

 

[4everchan]

When artistic skating was first in the Olympics, it was just solos and duets. This was especially odd because the it was called synchronized swimming at the time and it is hard to picture how a solo can be "synchronized". The sport desperately wanted teams in from the beginning, but took what they could get. After 3 Olympics, team came in and replaced duet and solo. The following Olympics, duet was added back in. I believe that the duet entries have to swim on the team as well, so adding duets didn't add any total athletes.

Perhaps synchronized skating hopes to follow a similar trajectory, by starting with synchro9 and later replacing it with synchro12 or traditional synchro (16 member teams).

OT: my daughter, who did artistic swimming, thinks 8 is a much better team size than 9. Her proposal is to have one skater standing beside the boards pointing appreciatively while the other 8 skate. The more drastic alternative is shooting one skater as the team enters the ice.

Yup. I know how that went but the solo is still not in after all these years and it was by far, my favourite.

 

[4everchan]

What does this mean? Are currrent or recent elite dance, pairs, or singles skaters going to switch and try this discipline for the Olympic prospect? That would be a little sad for the dedicated synchro skaters who've been fighting for years to be included. But I guess synchro 9 is quite different from regular synchro, so why not have skaters adapt up as well as down?

I can see solo dancers without a partner like Emmy Bronsard could return to the sport in that capacity.