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Monthly Archives: November 2021
Olympic designations
After having to give up NHK Trophy due to yet another ankle injury, Yuzuru Hanyu also retired from the Rostelecom Cup, which will take place in a few days. This does not surprise me, the two competitions are so close … Continue reading
A humble proposal to @ISU_Figure to name a rule
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
L’ ALTRO GIAPPONE 2021 | THE TOTAL PACKAGE – TRIBUTE TO YUZURU HANYŪ
Stavolta il mio ruolo è quello di semplice spettatrice. Magari prima o poi mi soffermerò davvero su quest’incontro, scriverò le mie considerazioni, ma non ora. Ora mi limito a ricordarvi che l’associazione culturale L’Altro Giappone, in collaborazione con il Museo … Continue reading
Edges and GOEs
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
Su Michela Cesaro e l’importanza del referee
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
1.000 cranes
When I saw the news, the first reaction was to swear. What do you do when something that was important to you suddenly fades away? And it fades away in a painful way. I cursed, even on twitter, even though … Continue reading
Bump at the Nationals/2: RUS, JPN, USA
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
Bump at the Nationals/1
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
USA vs RUS
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
