Is the new scoring system for Figure Skating effective? or do all routines seem to routine now?
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That's a good question. These Winter Olympics in Turin are the first I've seen of the new scoring system and it seems to be working fine. Correct me if I'm wrong but wasn't this new system designed more to prevent the ugly cheating scandal involving the French and Russian judges at the pairs competition during the 2002 Games in Salt Lake City? If it's made that sort of rubbish impossible to be repeated, then I think it's a big step forward.
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Gymnastics, Dance, Cheerleading and Skating
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For most people, skating in that direction feels more natural. I think it had to do with the fact that the majority of people are right-handed. If you're right handed, then it's more natural feeling for you to jump and spin and move in the counter clockwise direction. \n\nOn public sessions, rinks also require skaters to all go in the same direction for safety reasons, so you'll see that as well. \n\nBut at freestyle sessions, you'll see skaters moving in all sorts of directions - clockwise, counter clockwise, diagonally across the rink, in swirling patterns...
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Figure skating, last night it kicked butt-
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Good question. Unfortunately, there are very mixed motives involved in the current classification system. Those who play in leagues or tournaments usually want the lowest rating they can get so they can win. Those who use the rating to let others know how good they are, usually want to be rated higher.\nIf you are "accurately" rated, you will likely be mismatched against those who fudge. This encourages a downward push such that those who previously might have been 5.0s, for example, are now 4.5s.\nRatings now appear to be based first on your self-assessment, which is frequently falsified, and secondly on your results. I know that players will lose a few matches on purpose just to avoid being moved up a level. This clearly is not in the best interests of the game or in fair competition.\nSo, I do not believe the system is effective in accurately classifying players.
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Sadly, not yet. But if I were to go, as chilly a prospect as it may be, I would have to choose the Winter Olympics. Gotta love that figure skating!
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Scoring in figure skating is not ONLY about falling or not falling.  It's about style, choreography, line, edges, balance, etc.  Sasha Cohen is a truly gifted skater who did fall TWICE but, went on and regained her composure.  She performed superbly.  What a class act - to know you had lost the gold and to continue with such grace and skill.\nI applaud her and I think she deserves the silver and another award for her tenacity and perseverance.
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You can see all of the scores at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skating_with_Celebrities
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I am not a swimmer or into gymnastics but i have been a figure skater for 10 years. I am 14 now. Some sports is different timing. But ice skating takes so much time to learn everything to be in the Olympics. Also all of the sports that you have put in your question seem like sports that you have to be young and in shape to be good. So start them young with there sports. But if you want to jump into it right now it may work depending on how much effort you give.
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No, besides the fact that it would be impossible to have live realtime results which would force long wait times between performances and the athletes receiving their scores, most people would only give good scores to the players from their own country. The general public is not unbias enough or knowledgable enough in the various competitions to give an accurate score. It would become a popularity contest and turn the olympics into a joke.
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Yes.....it scores just what you stated 5-3-1.  The way you get 1/2 points are if the two athletes tie.  For example, three seperate high jumpers: Jumper#1 jumps 6 feet (1st place=5 pts), Jumper#2 jumps 5' 9" (2nd place=3pts), and Jumper#3&4 BOTH jump 5' 8".....so they split the points and both recieve a 1/2 point.  I coach track...so, let me know if you have any other questions.
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yeah!!!!I can't wait! I agree on the figure skating. Everything is just so cool!!!!
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Trophy Lalique \n\nParis, France \n13 - 16 November 1997\n\n \n\nLADIES \nPlace Skater Country SP FS \n1 Laetitia Hubert FRA 2 1 \n2 Tara Lipinski USA 1 2 \n3 Vanessa Gusmeroli FRA 5 3 \n4 Lu Chen CHN 4 4 \n5 Krisktina Czako HUN 3 6 \n6 Elena Ivanova RUS 6 5 \n7 Fanny Cagnard FRA 7 7 \n8 Eva-Maria Fitze GER 8 8 \n9 Jennifer Robinson CAN 10 9 \n10 Marta Andrade SPN 11 10 \n11 Hanae Yokoya JPN 9 11 \n\nNotes: \n\nLaetitia Huber pulled off a surprise vistory beating both World Champion Tara Lipinski and World Bronze medallist Vanessa Gusmeroli.  She skated a clean short and in the long she was fast and dynamic.  She landed five triples in the long.  Said Hubert, "It's encouraging, I'm working really hard now mentally.  This year we're showing that the old girls are still in it." (Huber is 23.)\n\nCompeting with a head cold, Tara Lipinski also landed five triple in the long, but she doubled a triple Lutz, and singled the second jump in her planned triple loop - triple loop copmbination.  Gusmeroli landed four triples, and fell on triple loop.  Lu Chen still has not regained her form of old, and without the full range of triple she once possesed could only manage a fourth place finish.\n\n \n\nMEN \nPlace Skater Country SP FS \n1 Alexei Yagudin RUS 2 1 \n2 Philippe Candeloro FRA 4 2 \n3 Igor Pashkevitch AZE 3 3 \n4 Todd Eldredge USA 1 5 \n5 Evgeny Pliuta UKR 7 4 \n6 Thierry Cerez FRA 5 6 \n7 Jeffrey Langdon CAN 6 7 \n8 Zhengxin Guo CHN 8 8 \n9 Frederic Dambier FRA 9 9 \n10 Selichi Suzuki JPN 11 10 \n  Michaeal Hopfes GER 10   \n\nNotes: \n\nAlexei Yagudin began his long program by landing triple Axel on two feet, but then went on to land six triple and a quad toe loop.  He completed quad toe, triple Axel - triple toe, double Lutz, triple flip - triple toe, triple Salchow and triple loop.\n\nAfter placing fourth in the short, Philippe Candeloro came back in the long skating his Napoleon program for the last time in competition.  Despite a few problems he showed that he is on the way back after last year's season beset by injury.  He landed triple Axel - triple toe, triple Lutz, triple loop, and triple toe.  A solo triple flip was not clean, he nearly fell on triple Axel, and touched a hand down on triple Salchow.   Despite these problems, it was an improvement over Nation's Cup and an encouraging program for his season.\n\nIgor Pashcevitch landed eight triples, but two of these were of poor quality, and he did not have a triple - triple combination.  He landed triple Axel - double toe, a double Lutz into triple toe sequence, and triple Salchow, flip, toe loop, and loop. A solo triple Axel and a solo triple Lutz were both done poorly with shaky landings.\n\nEldredge won the short program on a 5-2 split panel, landing triple Axel - triple toe, and triple Lutz; but had problems in the long.  He singled his opening triple Axel, then tried another and singled it again.  He landed triple Salchow - double toe, triple Lutz - triple toe, and triple loop for a total of four triples.  He also landed a double Axel and doubled a planned closing triple Salchow.  Speaking about the result, Eldredge's coach Richard Callaghan said, "It was a combination of pain and just missing training time between events."  (Eldredge suffered a dislocated shoulder at Skate America.).  Earlier Eldredge had said, "I'm only at 75% of where I would like to be."  Despite the poor result, Eldredge has sufficient points to guarantee making the series final.\n\nZhengxin Guoattempted two quad jumps.  He fell on the first and doubled the second.   Michael Hopfes pulled out after injuring his foot during practice the morning of the long program.\n\n \n\nPAIRS \nPlace Skater Country SP FS \n1 Bereznaia/Sikharulidze RUS 1 1 \n2 Woetzel/Steuer GER 2 2 \n3 Shen/Zhao CHN 3 3 \n4 Sargeant/Wirtz CAN 5 4 \n5 Abitbol/Bernadis FRA 4 5 \n6 Ina/Dungjen USA 6 6 \n7 Hartsell/Hartsell USA 8 7 \n8 Haddad/Prive FRA 7 8 \n9 Roger/Rolla
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Not really. You can only see so much figure skating before it gets boring, and it will be on a lot. Speed skating and skeleton are pretty interesting though.
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holy shit, if you have really been skating for 3 weeks you are REALLY GOOD. you can go pro in a few years. 10
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Except for the goalies, if you're on the ice for an equal strength goal, you get a plus, if it's a goal against, you get a minus.\n\nShort handed and power play goals don't figure into this stat.
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In my opinion the coverage for the olympics this year is a lot better than four years ago.\n\nFour years ago it was 95% figure skating and ice dancing\nFour years ago when they weren't showing figure skating they were showing weepy fluff pieces on the athletes' lives.\nFour years ago you wouldn't see an event unless an American was a medal contender.\n\nThis year they seem to be balancing out the coverage a lot better.  They're showing a wider variety of sports, and hardly any of the fluff pieces.  They're even showing sports where America isn't in contention.\n\nWhy are the ratings down?\n\nProbably because they're showing a wider variety of sports, and hardly any of the fluff pieces, and because they're showing sports where America isn't in contention.