 | irishgit (135)
04/26/2007 | Forget any idea that judging problems will get this sport removed from the Olympics. Last time I saw numbers, figure skating generated bigger audiences and more money than all other Olympic winter events put together.
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 | FranksWildYears (47)
04/26/2007 | Hopefully the fact that there have been a whole bunch of judging controversies in skating will give cause to the IOC to consider removing dog show type sports from the Olympics all together.
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 | sfalconer (21)
09/28/2005 | If you watch the winter olympics last time around you can't help but give this a five. Back in day when they had to do figures in the ice and they were judge on how good they were would have probably given it a two. Today its all about how many spins and did they stay with the music. Its about grace on smooth, how it the performance is correographed. Kind of like how dogs are judged on how they walk
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 | winter_spirit (2)
08/29/2004 | Actually I would have thought that the older version of figure skating, school figures (in which they had to have perfect movements, posture and expression while they traced a perfect circle into the ice, or an oval) was more like a dog show. Now ice skating is more free and flexible, which doesn't apply to dog shows at all. But the judging of the sport is indeed very similar: they are judged based on strength, flexibility, posture and expression. Apart from dog shows, they are also judged on the choreography of their performance (creativeness, originality, etc.).
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