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[Monzanator 4,828]

22 minutes ago, NearPup said:

Also, calling the sport figure skating is very much an English language thing. It translates as artistic skating in most languages.

 

It's called figure skating in Poland 

 

The plot twist is with gymnastics - we call rhythmic gymnastics as artistic gymnastics and artistic gymnastics as sport gymnastics 

[phelps 8,388]

4 minutes ago, Monzanator said:

 

It's called figure skating in Poland 

 

The plot twist is with gymnastics - we call rhythmic gymnastics as artistic gymnastics and artistic gymnastics as sport gymnastics 

[Grassmarket 4,102]

1 hour ago, Quaker2001 said:

The competitors found it boring as hell and it made for terrible television (that is if the networks even bothered to show it).  As much as it put the "figure" in figure skating, it's one of those relics of the sport and Olympic competition that no one really misses

Even when  had two Gold Medallists in 1976 & 1980 the BBC did not show it. Just highlights of our own competitors.  I don't think there were even spectators - they certainly would not have been able to see anything, because only the judges had the right angle to see what was happening.

 

Very detailed article on wiki about it.  They suggest that the dominance of young skaters is only possible because figures took years to master

 

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compulsory_figures?wprov=sfla1

 

 

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[Noorderling29 203]

1 hour ago, Monzanator said:

 

It's called figure skating in Poland 

 

The plot twist is with gymnastics - we call rhythmic gymnastics as artistic gymnastics and artistic gymnastics as 

Edited 1 hour ago by Noorderling29

[Noorderling29 203]

1 hour ago, Monzanator said:

 

It's called figure skating in Poland 

 

The plot twist is with gymnastics - we call rhythmic gymnastics as artistic gymnastics and artistic gymnastics as sport gymnastics 

We have two names, artistic skating or artistic riding

[Quaker2001 288]

2 hours ago, Monzanator said:

@Book@GrassmarketYeah, compulsory figures. Denise Biellmann finishing out of medals in 1980 OG despite 1st in FS and 2nd in SP is probably the most known instance of CF negative impact.

I'm also reminded as I know Canadians are painfully aware that if figures hadn't been a part of the 1984 Olympics, then Brian Orser would have won gold.  Hamilton could have finished 4th in the free skate that year and still beat Orser who finished 7th in the figures