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La Rhumba
11-17-2003, 01:42 PM
This is an unusual article [written in the style of an email to Sarah Hughes at Yale] about "the new judging system".
Warning: It's LONG! [and very much in favour].

FIGURE skating: Scoring that may finally cut the ice
International Herald Tribune, France

http://www.iht.com/articles/117932.html

After attending the Lalique GP, Christopher Clarey writes:

"... it does not remain strange for very long, and though it was a moving experience over the years to look up at the scoreboard and see a perfect mark of 6.0 after a transcendent performance by ice dancers Jayne Torvill and Christopher Dean or men's star Aleksei Yagudin, that is perhaps the only thing I found myself missing by the end of the free programs Saturday."

RobinA
11-17-2003, 08:19 PM
I see he agrees that the days of transcendence are over. Unfortunately, he kind of blows that off, even though that's exactly why most people watch sports.

I can see T&D's Bolero in the CoP days. Terry calling the scores: "Well, that's a total of ^%$#%& for this team, the score to beat was &*^%$%, so that puts them in the lead for now." ZZZZzzzzzzzzz