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How are they different than Boyang, Nathan, and Shoma were a few years ago? Why can’t they just make women’s PCS the same as men’s and insist that judges stop awarding unwarranted PCS and GOE?
I can't speak for Fabio Bianchetti or Phil Hersh, but to me it has a different feel. Boyang Jin and Shoma Uno accomplished some inpressive feats, but never won a world championship, much less "dominated" one. Nathan kind of snuck up on us, getting a little better every year. And in fact, quads for men was more evolution, while the 3 Eteri girls seem like they dropped an atom bomb on the sport.
As for making the PCS factoring the same for women as for men, I just remarked on another thread that this is not such a straightforward proposal as it seems. Raising the value of women's PCSs would help Alexandra Trusova beat a lot of the men. But for the vast majority of ladies it would have the effect of elevating the PCSs far above the TES, which would skew the results in ladies' skating. The new proposal would have this effect for the Artistic Program, but I don't think it would be desireable for the Technical Program, or for either the SP and LP as currently constituted.
As for insisting that the judges stop awarding unwarranted PCS and GOE, that's not going to happen no matter what, so ...
Anyway, that's my opinion.
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