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Originally Posted by CaptainCrunch
I would feel sorry for the athletes that train so hard. But judged sports like figure skating should have no part in the Olympics.
If there's no way to win it outright by besting your opponent it leaves things too wide open to corruption.
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I will be honest -comments like this really drive me crazy. Maybe it's because I was involved in a judged sport for most of my life but I don't think it's fair. People who watch these sports once every four years feel the need to downplay it because they don't understand how the judging/sport works.
If you follow the sport regularly it's quite easy to see a better performance vs a worse one. Although there is subjectivity in it, people who follow the sport can usually peg the score very close to the judges - which to me says that in the subjectivity there is consistency.
I think it's kind of disrespectful to these athletes to disregard their sport because of a perceived impression of judging.