Sarah Hughes - from my home town!

[milztoday]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at y..., "jenny_ravenclaw" <meboriqua at a...> wrote:
> Did anyone else watch the figure skating last night?  While I was 
> really rooting for Sasha Cohen (I think she has more talent than 
any 
> of them), I was pleased that Sarah Hughes won the Gold.  She's from 
my 
> home town, Great Neck!  When they did a piece on her, it was fun to 
> see the shots of Great Neck and to know exactly where everything 
was.
> 
> --jenny from ravenclaw**************************************

Actually, I was rooting for Sarah Hughes last night. She's been more 
consistent than Sasha Cohen (who reminds me of Nicole Bobek for some 
reason...) and she's beaten Michelle and Irina this season. Her 
fourth place scores on the short program were lower because she was 
the first of the elite to skate...and we all know how the judges love 
to leave room for the top! 

Out of all of them, Sarah's performance was more relaxed and 
controlled. Even when she took the ice, she looked relaxed whereas 
the others looked like they were about to give birth to Voldemort's 
baby;-)

Robinson's skating dress: looked alot like Nancy Kerrigan's skating 
dress in either the 92 Olympics or the 93 Worlds. That plain, white 
bodice with the see-through white sleeves.

That whole scoring system is weird. I never understood it. But I 
guess they had to do something with the scoring when they got rid of 
the compulsory figures in the late 80s. The scoring system that 
they're proposing now sounds just as weird and confusing. Really they 
should have the technical count for x% and the artistic count for x% 
of the total score. Skip the ordinals completely.

I think if they want to make part of the competion less subjective 
they should bring back the compulsory figures, where the skaters had 
to trace specific patterns using the different edges of their skates. 
I mean face it, if Peggy Fleming didn't have to do the figures, she 
wouldn't have won the Gold in '68. 

Milz