Friday, February 14, 2014

Olympic Scoring


I’ve been watching the Winter Olympics for at least 30 year and this year is the first time, when it comes to ice skating, each judge has a certain function to watch; I never knew this.
 
One judge will watch the skater’s feet, his/her ice skates and how they work on the ice.
 
One will watch the timing of the skater
 
One for technical value; how difficult the skaters program was.
 
I forgot the rest. I watch the program of pairs for instants, and I’m thinking they did pretty good and when the scores come up they suck.  Well I’m trying to watch the ‘whole’ skater and really do miss a lot of the little screw ups which can happen.  They run replays and sure enough, the landing was off, the timing was off.
 
No wonder you have to be so damn good to get to the Olympics.
 
My hat is off to all of our 2014 Olympians.

 
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5 comments:

  1. OrbsCorbsFebruary 14, 2014 at 11:13 PM

    I salute them, too.

    The training that they have to endure just to get to the Olympics makes them all champions.

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  2. SERFebruary 15, 2014 at 2:00 AM

    I see there is a big hoop-de-do over the Speed Skaters new suits, they claim they are slowing them down so they are going back to their old style today 2/15 and see if that will help them land some medal.

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  3. kkditherFebruary 15, 2014 at 8:28 AM

    I'm not a big sports enthusiast, but I always look forward to and enjoy the Olympics.

    These folks seem bigger than life. Way more professional than the "professionals" that are glorified.

    I can't imagine nor understand the force that propels them, the hours put into their sport and the level of talent they achieve.

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  4. kkditherFebruary 16, 2014 at 3:36 PM

    Watched a bit of curling today. Coming closer to understanding it, but still somewhat lost. From what I understand, there is a club on the north side of Racine. Maybe we have Irregular talent amongst us?

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  5. SERFebruary 17, 2014 at 11:20 AM

    I got to watch one of may favorite events, bobsledding.

    Everyone loves the Jamaican Bobsled team, they didn't place very well, The Jamaican bobsled team is in last place heading into Monday's final two heats in the two man bobsled competition.

    Sitting in third behind RUS-1 and SUI-1, Steven Holcomb & Steve Langton are hoping to win the U.S.'s first two-man medal since '52.

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