Figure skating judges and arbitrary decisions
Many sports, judging by creativity, personality, sentiment and spontaneity, are difficult to determine who is the best in the competition. And yet the American people love figure skating and often immortalize the best artists. But how can anyone be sure that the best skaters really win? They sure have mandatory maneuvers to do and the judges know the complexity and difficulty of various other tricks and yet many other things are arbitrary.
Often while watching these performances, I totally disagree with the judges and feel like the winners are somehow rigged. In the last 10 years we have seen scandals with judges in the main world competitions, so one has to wonder if, like the Tour de France, perhaps finger skating has lost its legitimacy due to these judging offenses?
Unfortunately, in all of this it becomes extremely unfair to athletes who practice 6-8 hours a day to perform at that World Class level. It seems that there is too much politics in figure skating and that is a parody, because it takes talent, strength, nerves of steel and sheer strength to achieve a maximum performance like that. Consider all of this in 2006.