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09-29-2002, 10:16 AM
Inspired by the L/A topic, I exercised this morning to the '02 Olympic Ice Dance (I'm most of the way through original dance, with free dance to exercise to tomorrow). Something one of the commentators said caught my attention, so I pulled out the results of the '98 Olympics and compared them with '02.
Here's how the ice dance couples did in both Olympics (I'm putting in nationalities simply because I'm too lazy to type out names):
1 '98 G/P (Rus) '02- retired
2 '98 K/O (Rus) '02- retired
3 '98 A/P (Fra) '02- 1
4 '98 B/K (Can) '02- 4
5 '98 L/A (Rus) '02- 2
6 '98 F-P/M(It) '02- 3
7 '98 P/S (USA) '02- retired
8 '98 D/V (Lit) '02- 5
With the exception of B/K who stayed in fourth, couples 3, 5, 6, and 8 moved in absolute lockstep with each other- couple 3 moving up the two spaces of the two retired couples, couples 5 and 6 hopping over B/K and moving up the additional two spots of the retired couples, and couple 8 moving in unison with the others, replacing the retired couple immediately in front of it, not moving any further ahead or behind.
I've read a lot of justifications of ice dance placements not changing from compulsories through free dance in a single event, but these are competitions four years apart. I know nothing about statistics, but this just seems weird to me. In the other three disciplines, while there are definitely skaters who moved up, there is no such lockstep movements.
I'm not suggesting conspiracies, and I don't think Russian gangsters have anything to do this this. I also know that previous Worlds have had different placements. And maybe the fact that B/K didn't move at all changes the meaning of everything in a way I don't see. But does it seem quirky to anyone else that 4 different couples skated at parallel ordinal levels in four year apart events?
Here's how the ice dance couples did in both Olympics (I'm putting in nationalities simply because I'm too lazy to type out names):
1 '98 G/P (Rus) '02- retired
2 '98 K/O (Rus) '02- retired
3 '98 A/P (Fra) '02- 1
4 '98 B/K (Can) '02- 4
5 '98 L/A (Rus) '02- 2
6 '98 F-P/M(It) '02- 3
7 '98 P/S (USA) '02- retired
8 '98 D/V (Lit) '02- 5
With the exception of B/K who stayed in fourth, couples 3, 5, 6, and 8 moved in absolute lockstep with each other- couple 3 moving up the two spaces of the two retired couples, couples 5 and 6 hopping over B/K and moving up the additional two spots of the retired couples, and couple 8 moving in unison with the others, replacing the retired couple immediately in front of it, not moving any further ahead or behind.
I've read a lot of justifications of ice dance placements not changing from compulsories through free dance in a single event, but these are competitions four years apart. I know nothing about statistics, but this just seems weird to me. In the other three disciplines, while there are definitely skaters who moved up, there is no such lockstep movements.
I'm not suggesting conspiracies, and I don't think Russian gangsters have anything to do this this. I also know that previous Worlds have had different placements. And maybe the fact that B/K didn't move at all changes the meaning of everything in a way I don't see. But does it seem quirky to anyone else that 4 different couples skated at parallel ordinal levels in four year apart events?