Sarah Hughes on Barbara Walters

[donnamarie]

Sarah has been chosen as one of Barbara Walters' "10 most interesting people of 2002," and will be part of the broadcast on Wednesday night, the 18th, on ABC.

[CMc]

I just saw it--Great new interview!!
They didn't mention Harvard, so this was obviously taped a while back.
She had her classic pixie look at least!:)

[scooter133]

On one of the clips of her Olympic free skate that they showed, you can hear Sandra Bezic say Sarah was allowed only one more triple. Is there some sort of triple limit in the free skate or what?

[CMc]

Well that was near the end of the skate and she already did six of them. I think Bezic was being partially humorous thinking Sarah would illegally throw in an extra one after the seventh.

[CarolA0923]

Yes, there is a limit. Ladies can only do seven in the long program I belive. If I recall, they put this rule in when Elaine Zayak was skating since she was the first to do multiple triples and they were afraid the artisitic side would disappear.

[adrianchew]

Originally posted by CarolA0923

Yes, there is a limit. Ladies can only do seven in the long program I belive.

Eight would be possible if they had all 6 triples including a 3-axel. Only 2 jumps can be repeated in combination, 6 triples + 2 repeated in combination = 8 triple jumps.

Not sure what will happen with quads... with men, there is currently an unwritten rule that a quad toe and a triple toe are counted as different jumps (check out a Plushenko program). So more than 8 triple or higher jumps actually is possible for the men right now.