{"id":7849,"date":"2008-03-13T23:10:42","date_gmt":"2008-03-14T03:10:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=7849"},"modified":"2022-10-14T22:18:44","modified_gmt":"2022-10-15T02:18:44","slug":"the-fiasco-of-ice-skating-judges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=7849","title":{"rendered":"The Fiasco of Ice Skating Judges"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thesmartset.com\/article\/article11080703.aspx\">Fascinating<\/a>!!!<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m a huge fan of figure skating (the ongoing <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=7573\">blight of Michelle Kwan<\/a> notwithstanding) but I&#8217;m also not blind to the fact that the judging &#8220;system&#8221; and the scoring &#8220;system&#8221; is kray-kray to the nth degree.  A really interesting (and, naturally, UN-biased) essay.  Good work.<\/p>\n<p>Daisuke Takahashi&#8217;s Short Program in the clip below &#8211; the one mentioned in the article.  Takahashi is a rock star.  The Mick Jagger of ice skating.  Phenomenal.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><br \/>\n<object width=\"425\" height=\"355\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/yJG4oLLmloE&#038;hl=en\"><\/param><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/yJG4oLLmloE&#038;hl=en\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" wmode=\"transparent\" width=\"425\" height=\"355\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fascinating!!! I&#8217;m a huge fan of figure skating (the ongoing blight of Michelle Kwan notwithstanding) but I&#8217;m also not blind to the fact that the judging &#8220;system&#8221; and the scoring &#8220;system&#8221; is kray-kray to the nth degree. A really interesting &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=7849\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[2134],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7849"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7849"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7849\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":181596,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7849\/revisions\/181596"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7849"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7849"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7849"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}