Figure Skating · Scoring system
ISU Judging System since 2004: base value plus a grade of execution from -5 to +5, plus program components Toe loop, Salchow, loop, flip, Lutz and Axel — the Axel alone takes off facing forward
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Figure Skating · Scoring systemISU Judging System since 2004: base value plus a grade of execution from -5…
Figure Skating · Most world titlesTen each: Ulrich Salchow (men, 1901-1911), Sonja Henie (women, 1927-1936),…
Figure Skating · The sport's centre of gravity has moved repeatedlyThe sport's centre of gravity has moved repeatedly. Codified in Britain and…
Figure Skating · What makes it unusual among scored sports is that the scoring itWhat makes it unusual among scored sports is that the scoring itself was…
Ten each: Ulrich Salchow (men, 1901-1911), Sonja Henie (women, 1927-1936), Irina Rodnina (pairs, 1969-1978) Figure skating is the only Olympic sport judged on both what the body can do and what it can say. A skater has between two minutes forty seconds and four minutes to launch multi-rotation jumps off a blade about four millimetres wide, spin fast enough to blur, and hold a musical argument together while doing it.
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Figure Skating · Most world titles
Ten each: Ulrich Salchow (men, 1901-1911), Sonja Henie (women, 1927-1936), Irina Rodnina (pairs, 1969-1978) Figure skating is the only Olympic sport judged on both what the body can do and what it can say. A skater has between two minutes forty seconds and four minutes to launch multi-rotation jumps off a blade about four millimetres wide, spin fast enough to blur, and hold a musical argument together while doing it.
Figure Skating · The sport's centre of gravity has moved repeatedly
The sport's centre of gravity has moved repeatedly. Codified in Britain and reinvented in Vienna by the American Jackson Haines, it was dominated by Scandinavia and Austria before the Second World War, by the Soviet Union for four decades after it, and since the 2000s by Japan, the United States, South Korea, China and Russia.
Figure Skating · What makes it unusual among scored sports is that the scoring it
What makes it unusual among scored sports is that the scoring itself was rewritten in living memory. The 6.0 system collapsed after the 2002 Olympic pairs judging scandal and was replaced in 2004 by the ISU Judging System, which assigns every jump, spin and step sequence a published base value, adjusts it by a grade of execution from minus five to plus five, and adds a separate component score for composition,
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- The sport's centre of gravity has moved repeatedly. Codified in Britain and reinvented in Vienna by the American Jackson Haines, it was dominated by Scandinavia and Austria before the Second World War, by the Soviet Union for four decades after it, and since the 2000s by Japan, the United States, South Korea, China and Russia.
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- What makes it unusual among scored sports is that the scoring itself was rewritten in living memory. The 6.0 system collapsed after the 2002 Olympic pairs judging scandal and was replaced in 2004 by the ISU Judging System, which assigns every jump, spin and step sequence a published base value, adjusts it by a grade of execution from minus five to plus five, and adds a separate component score for composition,
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