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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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Can you though? I hear this argument and it makes sense, but then I see that even judging has ruined what should be an obvious sport in ski jumping. I don't know all the ins and outs of the sport, and like most people I become an expert watching it once every four years or so. It seems obvious though...come down the ramp and whoever goes the furthest wins, right? Have a look down the results from a couple days ago:
http://www.bbc.com/sport/0/winter-olympics/25830854
Its just not sensible. I'm sure that a ski jumping purist would be able to rationalize this, but honestly how do people jump further and finish out of the medals? Does it really matter what the style points are? We don't have the garbage in things like high jump or long jump, so why here? To me, and my completely amateur uninformed opinion, judging just makes the results murky and potentially questionable. In a day and age where medals are worth millions of dollars they shouldn't be handed out based on obviously subjective measures.