[HPFGU-OTChatter] Re: Defending ice dancing, the ISU and judging

[Andrew MacIan]

Greetings from Andrew!

"Where the men are men, and...."

--- Aberforth's Goat <Aberforths_Goat at Yahoo.com>
wrote:
> Andrew took a
> 
> > step or six back
> 
> and contributed
> 
> > a rather radical proposal:
> 
> > Any 'sport' that requires external
> > judging, where that judging awards/affects points
> > should NOT be an Olympic sport.  That they are
> > athletic in nature is a given.  But when the
> > subjective nature of the judging is integral to
> the
> > placements of the finishers, then the contest is
> not
> > only between the open competitors but also
> > amongst/between the judges...and the nations the
> > judges really represent.
> 
> Phew! That's sounds a little tough. No more
> gymnasts, divers or
> ski jumpers? (Actually, no. Scratch ski jumping.
> Switzerland has
> a star or two and they currently have this obscenely
> boring sport
> on TV all the time, and it's driving me crazy, and
> I'm for
> banning it forever.)

{laughter}  Sounds like NASCAR or whatever that is. 
Give me a good Grand Prix/Group 7/F1 race instead...

> 
> Somehow, I think these qualitative sports are simply
> too
> beautiful to chuck, even if they are a pain. I'm not
> sure I could
> imagine caring about the Olympics if all it had left
> were a bunch
> of people running around in circles really fast.

Well, no argument on the esthetics, at all.  However,
we do need to be able to further isolate the skill
from the judging of form, let us say.  Having the
judges sit around the ready room tossing euros for
first place seems a bit more fair that what we've seen
happen with the ISU over the last, what, four? five?
cycles.


> 
> Baaaaaa!

Humbug!

{grin}

Cheers,

Drieux


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