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Am I entertained by figure skating as a competitive athletic event?

Nope.

I like sports with objective measurements. Who was the fastest? Who leapt the farthest? Who jumped the highest? Which team or individual scored the most OBJECTIVE points/goals/etc. Objective points/goals are obvious.

Diving, gymnastics, figure skating……and any activity in which judges determine the winners……I respect the athleticism. I don’t respect how their organizations determine the score or victor.

In “aesthetic” athletic “competitions,” the “East German” judge puts his or her thumb on the scale too often.

American TV (and advertisers) decided decades ago that they wanted to attract a non-sports watching audience to Olympic broadcasts.

So, in terms of the Winter Olympics, we see a ridiculous amount of figure skating.

Now, we have a BS made up sport in figure skating……Team Figure Skating.
 
All sports have refs. The scoring for figure skating, and the other sports you are maligning, has become increasingly objective over the years.
 
Zoo_View said:
Am I entertained by figure skating as a competitive athletic event?

Nope.

I like sports with objective measurements. Who was the fastest? Who leapt the farthest? Who jumped the highest? Which team or individual scored the most OBJECTIVE points/goals/etc. Objective points/goals are obvious.

Diving, gymnastics, figure skating……and any activity in which judges determine the winners……I respect the athleticism. I don’t respect how their organizations determine the score or victor.

In “aesthetic” athletic “competitions,” the “East German” judge puts his or her thumb on the scale too often.

American TV (and advertisers) decided decades ago that they wanted to attract a non-sports watching audience to Olympic broadcasts.

So, in terms of the Winter Olympics, we see a ridiculous amount of figure skating.

Now, we have a BS made up sport in figure skating……Team Figure Skating.
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You're thinking of the old days of figure skating, gymnastics, etc. The sports have responded to those criticisms by making their scoring systems much more objective and rational. Are there still some artistic/subjective components? Yes. But not to the extent your post is suggesting.
 
altmin said:
the USA Italy mixed doubles curling match was fire. Back and forth the whole match, with huge shots from each team every round
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I thought the US had blown it when they let Italy score 3 to take the lead back. Then they made a couple of great shots to win it. I love watching curling and my former colleague who's originally from Canada and was herself a competitive curler (and knows a lot of the US/Canadian Olympians - it's a fairly insular world) said she didn't think the US was a big contender for any of the curling medals, so great to have a silver or better already guaranteed.
 
Yes, but this one covers the night the ‘good guys’ forgot to win, and America never shut up about it. It’s the Rocky III of hockey movies.
 
rodoheel said:
I thought the US had blown it when they let Italy score 3 to take the lead back. Then they made a couple of great shots to win it. I love watching curling and my former colleague who's originally from Canada and was herself a competitive curler (and knows a lot of the US/Canadian Olympians - it's a fairly insular world) said she didn't think the US was a big contender for any of the curling medals, so great to have a silver or better already guaranteed.
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Yeah that three point score looked like it would finally break the neck and neck nature of the match.
 
rodoheel said:
You're thinking of the old days of figure skating, gymnastics, etc. The sports have responded to those criticisms by making their scoring systems much more objective and rational. Are there still some artistic/subjective components? Yes. But not to the extent your post is suggesting.
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I think gymnastics has cleaned itself up enormously.

Figure skating? I doubt it. Too much post-Olympics Icecapades money.

And, the skating “team event” is just BS. Made for TV viewers. Why does a victory by hundredths (0.00) get a 1.0 point differential? Add up the individual scores and determine the team winner.

I’m not a big “team” Olympics fan.
 
Zoo_View said:
I think gymnastics has cleaned itself up enormously.

Figure skating? I doubt it. Too much post-Olympics Icecapades money.

And, the skating “team event” is just BS. Made for TV viewers. Why does a victory by hundredths (0.00) get a 1.0 point differential? Add up the individual scores and determine the team winner.

I’m not a big “team” Olympics fan.
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For the same reason that finishing second in a freestyle swimming event by 0.01 seconds gets you a silver medal.
 
ZenMode said:
The correct answer, as an athlete, is to say something along the lines of "I have my political views but, right now, I am proud to represent the US; the greatest country on Earth".
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Lol...you would believe that you have the "correct answer"
 
sringwal said:
And the correct answer for our president is not to post denigrating comments about our athletes, or sporting events. And yet here we are.
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Yes. The country will never be perfect in the eyes of everyone. No matter who is president, there will be a decent portion of the country that does not like them or their policies.

Trump isn't the United States and he doesn't define the United States. He's just one person.

Athletes aren't there representing Trump, ICE, Republicans, Democrats or anything else. They are there representing the greatest country on the planet.
 
ZenMode said:
Athletes aren't there representing Trump, ICE, Republicans, Democrats or anything else. They are there representing the greatest country on the planet.
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"Just because I wear the flag doesn't mean that I represent everything that's going on in the US."

I'm not sure what the difference is, to be honest, between what he said and what you just wrote.
 
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