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Originally Posted by FFR
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.
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I'll take it a step further and say it is very disrespectful to the athletes and judges themselves who, I would say 99.999%, are clean and do everything they can to ensure fair competition. Furthermore, I'm not just talking figure skating, I'm referring to all sports that are refereed and judged.
Also, as someone who has been following and involved in a range of amateur sport over the past 15+ years I find it very frustrating to hear people who suddenly become critical of an athlete's performance or the sport itself because they suddenly decide to watch every 4 years. The athletes compete every single winter (or summer) and if people would actually take the time to learn the sport they would be better able to understand what is going on.
Getting back to figure skating, it's really not difficult to understand what is going on. One doesn't have to know the difference between a Lutz and Salchow to see the difference between a quad and a triple for example. So instead of blinding criticizing, take the time to learn.