dcro 10,172 Posted October 29, 2020 Author #21 Share Posted October 29, 2020 Cyprus just won a junior rhythm dance in Minsk with an impressive score of 67.11 ! Yeah, okay... It's actually two Russians competing for Cyprus, but still, with a score like that they should be able to qualify for the Olympics quite easily. #banbestmen Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Olympian1010 7,418 Posted November 30, 2020 #22 Share Posted November 30, 2020 “Sport has the power to change the world. It has the power to inspire. Sport can create hope where once there was only despair” - Nelson Mandela Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Monzanator 3,569 Posted November 30, 2020 #23 Share Posted November 30, 2020 Norway controls FIS already. Do they really have to control ISU as well? Hell no. Name me ONE Norwegian figure skater not named Sonja Henie who won a World Championship gold medal I'm pretty sure they will be put back to their place and rightfully so. Norway in figure skating doesn't mean anything. It's like Romania or Poland trying to tell USA how the baseball World Series should be run mrv86, Col_Frost and dcro 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dcro 10,172 Posted November 30, 2020 Author #24 Share Posted November 30, 2020 Norway had zero (0) skaters even when they hosted in 1994. Monzanator 1 #banbestmen Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Olympian1010 7,418 Posted November 30, 2020 #25 Share Posted November 30, 2020 A case can definitely be made that Norway is on to something. Perhaps their “lack of competitive skaters” helps them to have a more neutral judgement on proposals like this. Other officials, athletes, and countries have suggested these changes, I think they were just the federation that put it forward. “Sport has the power to change the world. It has the power to inspire. Sport can create hope where once there was only despair” - Nelson Mandela Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Monzanator 3,569 Posted November 30, 2020 #26 Share Posted November 30, 2020 Raising the competitive age solves nothing. You'd still take up figure skating at age 4 or 5 to begin with. Herein lies the problem. Physical injuries always take their toll more on a sport you have to start very early to ever stand a chance. You can't take up figure skating at 10 if you want to be a competitive pro. Raising the age won't stop having career-ending back injuries at age 21 instead of 19 for instance Anorexia? Geez, what else is new. Good thing USA sucks at ski jumping or else we'd here more bullshit like that given how strict BMI in ski jumping is But thankfully USA, France and UK don't care about ski jumping so we can have anorexia over there! Of course this push makes a whole lot political sense if the Western Europe & USA want to influence the Russian dominance of the sport. I'd laugh my ass off if this somehow gets approved and 17 year old Russians still kick the 17 year old Americans & French all over the ice rink mrv86 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mrv86 2,852 Posted December 1, 2020 #27 Share Posted December 1, 2020 I think Norway should instead get credible asthma diagnosis to support their institutional doping in Nordic events. Monzanator 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Olympian1010 7,418 Posted December 1, 2020 #28 Share Posted December 1, 2020 1 hour ago, mrv86 said: I think Norway should instead get credible asthma diagnosis to support their institutional doping in Nordic events. I heard three Norwegian skiers had asthma attacks when reading this, thankfully Chris Froome was there and was able to lend them his inhalers mrv86 1 “Sport has the power to change the world. It has the power to inspire. Sport can create hope where once there was only despair” - Nelson Mandela Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rybak 2,672 Posted December 10, 2020 #29 Share Posted December 10, 2020 That's huge Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rybak 2,672 Posted December 10, 2020 #30 Share Posted December 10, 2020 Additionaly, European Championships which were scheduled to take place in Zagreb in late January are cancelled, as well as Grand Prix Final. dcro 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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