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."
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."