Figure skating judges and arbitrary decisions

Many sports, judging by creativity, personality, feeling and spontaneity, it is difficult to determine who is the best in the competition. And yet, the American people love figure skating and often immortalize the greatest artists. But how can anyone be sure that the best skaters really win? Sure they have mandatory maneuvers to do and they know the complexity and difficulty of various judges, other tricks and yet many other things are arbitrary.

Often as I watch these performances I disagree with the judges and feel like the winners are somehow rigged. In the last 10 years we have seen scandals with the judges in the main world competitions, so one must wonder if, like the Tour de France, has finger skating lost its legitimacy due to these crimes by the judges? ?

Unfortunately, all of this becomes grossly unfair to athletes who practice 6-8 hours a day to perform at that world-class level. There seems to be too much politics in figure skating and that’s a farce, because it takes talent, strength, nerves of steel and sheer strength to pull off peak performance like that. Please consider all this in 2006.