Monthly Archives: November 2021

In sports it is quite common for an element, a move or a rule to be named after the person who conceived them, or who made them famous. In figure skating we can think, for example, of jumps, such as … Continue reading →

The Grand Prix of Italy was held last week. I haven’t looked at all the protocols or all the competitions, but sometimes I suspect that even those who have to judge the competitions are not so much careful. It cannot … Continue reading →

Confesso che la prima volta che mi sono trovata fra le mani il documento ufficiale dell’ISU sul caso 2020-02 contro Michela Cesaro, l’ho sottovalutato. Stavo scrivendo un post lunghissimo, talmente lungo che alla fine l’ho suddiviso in 14 parti intitolate … Continue reading →

In the previous post I started looking at how high are the marks awarded to the skaters the national championships. Any explanation, as to why I did this check and how I did it, can be found there. I would … Continue reading →

I was already checking closely the National Championships for some time when I came across this tweet: If you enter in the tweet, the graphs are really interesting. And, graphs aside, who wrote the tweet mentioned a Christine Brennan’s article. … Continue reading →

I warn you that my post is long and, at some point, also full of calculations. I started from a lot of years ago, because sometimes a historical picture can be useful, to get to what is happening now. I … Continue reading →