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Although I guess if they get into fist fights it might be something to see.
What on earth was going on in Kosovo?!
Although I guess if they get into fist fights it might be something to see.
Is it going to be anything like this? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jTIEpvWJCK4
Or this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=emKIIv2_cNI
What on earth was going on in Kosovo?!
Although I guess if they get into fist fights it might be something to see.
I thought maybe it was supposed to be a romantic moment? He did sweep the guy off his feet.Sounds like people were throwing water bottles at each other and they were bursting. Although I wonder how much bad luck was incurred by opening all those umbrellas inside...
I gotta say though, Japan's Government doesn't mess around...Although I was most confused by Ukraine...what was with the bouquet of flowers for?!!
Although I guess if they get into fist fights it might be something to see.
ISU is going to livestream their Congress from Jun 4-8 on their channel for the first time in history.
https://www.isu.org/news/145-news/12087-isu-congress-2018-seville-esp-preview?templateParam=15
Oh boy
And in the end...?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=myClzw4lG08
I don't think I am able to watch it live because of my timezone, but I hope we'll have the video later.
I just realized with the. We +5 -5 GOE it would be very possible to see judges have splits between +2 and +5 pretty frequently.
Say one judge fells the jump didn’t hit one of the three main criteria’s and therefore only awards a +2, even though the element is timed to music and has a difficult entry.
While another judge feels all 3 main criteria are met and the final two as well.
At least from what I understand of the new scoring?
I exhibit no surprise? It’s the Netherlands. We barely manage to qualify skaters to Euros, nm Worlds, but at our only relatively small international FS competition, (not a Challenger), there’s both (!) a gala and a skating battle (!!), which is actually pretty hilarious.
We’re also responsible for bringing a whole lot of weird (reality)TV entertainment into the world.
Idols? Sounds perfectly logical to me coming from this country! ;-)
Is sport entertainment? Yes, to some extent. For sure we have to embrace 'citius, altius, fortius' too. I have nothing against quads. I love skating. I have huge respect for the coaching structure in the top-countries and for all athletes pushing the boundaries. But we have to think about the outside perspective, about increasing the fan base, getting stadiums full, being back as the sport that everyone talks about, and in a positive way. If we continue like this we will have a continuous sweep of 15-16yo on the Senior podiums because I can not realistically see 20+ yo women doing quads and no one apart from the die-hard fan and incrowd will be interested in our sport much longer.
Unless a given competition is right in your hometown, going to a major international competition will generally involve several hundred dollars in travel/lodging costs right out of the gate. Anybody with that kind of money isn’t likely to be much-incentivized by the tickets costing $50 less.I will always question why the tickets are so costly.
But the original post was talking about increasing the fan base beyond the die-hards.Unless a given competition is right in your hometown, going to a major international competition will generally involve several hundred dollars in travel/lodging costs right out of the gate. Anybody with that kind of money isn’t likely to be much-incentivized by the tickets costing $50 less.
Well you can make fun of it, name it "idols", name it "heroes" but here's a thing.
As a younger fan who would like to attend competitions (I haven’t been to one yet) - I would say that costly tickets are not really the main factor why I haven’t attended a competition. The main factor is that the competitions are so spread out around the world - and travel costs (and having to take time off as well) are the main limiting factor.
I will use Nathan as an example since I am most familiar with him. Many of his fans are younger/teenagers who simply do not have the resources and/or time to travel to watch him compete. If the competition happens to be in their area - that would be great - but this situation would be quite rare for most fans.
But the original post was talking about increasing the fan base beyond the die-hards.
So for the casual or potential fans (who wouldn't travel overnight to see figure skating) the lower price could very well be the incentive needed to attend competitions that are not too far away.