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If I’m reading the charts correctly, a 4S with a fall, assuming the jump was fully rotated, would earn the skater 3.85 in points (9.70 base value - 4.85 GOE from the mandatory -5 GOE and then -1.0 deduction for the fall). A 3S with 0 GOE (“average”) would earn 4.3 points, so it doesn’t look to...

Think of it as the compulsory dance of figure skating. I disagree that quads are worth so much with a fall that people risk them anyway. When you add in the -1 for the fall plus the impact on PCS including the cap for multiple falls, falling on a quad is costly. The reason people do them...

Liu has such a surfer / California girl vibe.

I would not be surprised if Naumov retired from competitive skating. He appears to have been fueled this season by a drive to fulfill his parents’ (and his) dream of going to the Olympics, for himself, but also for their memory, and with that accomplished, I could see him moving on from...

“The path to healing was in doing the difficult things.”

@cholla your article is so disturbing yet so necessary - everyone should read it. My heart breaks for those women.

ChoBat already have a team gold, so given their age and the fact that dance is first up, I’d be surprised if they decide to do both segments of the team event.

Looking at just the free skate, which is what would be at stake: Torgy’s lowest FS score this season: 136.26 (NHK) Naumov’s lowest FS score this season: 146.72 (Lombardia) Torgashev: Median FS score from internationals this season: 157.02 Standard deviation across internationals this...

There is already a discipline without jumps. It’s called ice dance.

Assuming Malinin will not skate the free program, the U.S. faces the same choice - do you pick the skater that has the most upside potential but also the most downside, or do you pick the skater whose performances have been more consistent? Or basically, do you take higher risk since it also...

Since we’re discussing bias, it’s interesting to me how differently people can interpret the same commentary. Posters who have been quite plain about their distaste for Weir are not surprisingly interpreting his commentary negatively, while others (including some who have expressed a liking for...

P/H?

I found all of the tiles you’re missing so try looking again. Thank you! At first only a few odd days showed so I wouldn’t have known there’s on for every day if you hadn’t said this. FYI for everyone in case you missed it - there are two different tiles for each event - the World feed that...

Wakaba :wuzrobbed

See if this works: https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6944635/2026/01/07/ilia-malinin-olympics-figure-skating-quad-god//?source=athletic_user_shared_article_copylink&smid=url-share-ta