It is clearly undervalued. While some people say it discourages a hard jump like that, well, theoretically speaking, it pushes Malinin or the next guy to try a quintuple to see what BV will they give it, to try to gain as much technical advantage as the other break-out skaters enjoyed back at the time when one skater could jump a quad, when one skater started to do multiple quads, and, finally, when a skater was able to have a quad on basically every jumping pass where quad was allowed.
It's really unfair toward Malinin that his spectacular technical feat is of so little impact on the scoring that he must perform programs that are ultra-saturated with other quads, after 4A, and he can't risk a single mistake. He also has to demonstrate 3A too, on top of 4A, the reason being...???
And that's after years of debate about 4A and how it is an ultimate jump, unachievable etc.
We all had seen that the use of 4A in the SP was woefully inadequate in terms of creating a safety cushion for the free skate. A skater with a fairly common and safe 4T and 4S is far too close to a skater with a unique 4A and rather risky 4Lz.
What it will potentially leads to, is an SP like for Junior Women in this year's JGPF. Everyone performs the same elements, everyone is clean, everyone looks the same, so what's the point and how to judge it?
It's really unfair toward Malinin that his spectacular technical feat is of so little impact on the scoring that he must perform programs that are ultra-saturated with other quads, after 4A, and he can't risk a single mistake. He also has to demonstrate 3A too, on top of 4A, the reason being...???
And that's after years of debate about 4A and how it is an ultimate jump, unachievable etc.
We all had seen that the use of 4A in the SP was woefully inadequate in terms of creating a safety cushion for the free skate. A skater with a fairly common and safe 4T and 4S is far too close to a skater with a unique 4A and rather risky 4Lz.
What it will potentially leads to, is an SP like for Junior Women in this year's JGPF. Everyone performs the same elements, everyone is clean, everyone looks the same, so what's the point and how to judge it?
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