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Rusty Larue
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I thought we established diving was on a strictly quantitative scale.
Whenever I see diving all I can think about is the FUCKED IT BIG TIME YouTube.
I thought we established diving was on a strictly quantitative scale.
Apparently the participation trophy generation has taken over with you getting more points for attempting harder spins than just flawlessly completing others. Since Rippon didn't attempt harder spins he by default scored less.
Yeah, it’s ridiculous. Skate a flawless pretty difficult routine and you get beat by a guy that falls on his ass trying to skate a harder routine.
You two are serious?
Never mind. It's the Russian -- Anastasia. So hot.
Women’s Hockey doing work.
I thought we established diving was on a strictly quantitative scale.
You two are serious?
You two are serious?
in snowboarding halfpipe if you fall, your run is effectively over. if you go through your run perfectly with easier tricks you will score higher than if you attempt a big trick and bust your ass. granted, you can probably throw that one run out since the finals is best of 3 runs, but there was one American woman yesterday who finished last who fell on all three runs.
that's only because their speed/momentum is slowed so much that they won't be able to get up the ramp and effectively do anything
Exactly.
There are several elements in figure skating. If someone fails at a very difficult element and has slightly more success than another skater at other elements, he gets a sightly better score. I think that’s what we saw.
that's only because their speed/momentum is slowed so much that they won't be able to get up the ramp and effectively do anything
depends on when it happens...plenty of people recovered from their falls and were still able to do decently big tricks
The figure skating equivalent would be falling on your first jump, just not taking four in a row, and then ending with four jumps that are significantly easier. Yay.
Its almost if different sports have different rules and nuances that make comparing them an almost impossible task.
it's like giving the pebble beach trophy to jason day for an incredible par on 18 on sunday because he had a harder time
They are very transparent about it. Here ya go for the men's free skate:
http://www.isuresults.com/results/season1718/owg2018/OWG2018_TeamMen_FS_M_Scores.pdf
Someone feel free to break it down and tell me how that's not fair.