Athletistic / Figure skating. Three-time Olympic figure skating champion Irina Rodnina shared her opinion on possible changes to the rules of figure skating. It was previously reported that the ISU proposes to reduce the number of jumping elements in the free program for single skaters from seven to six, stunts – from three to two (one of them can be a sequence ).

“To be honest, I don’t see much in modern figure skating. It’s been two years now since we had any competitions normally, so it’s difficult to say anything. Today we are ordinary spectators and little aware of new trends and directions.

If we compare past figure skating with the current one, we had different rules and, therefore, different requirements, and therefore different judgment. What to compare?

Rodnina reacted to Zhulin’s resounding words about “half-drunk skaters” during demonstrations

Now, I don’t like the judging system. Maybe I’m an overwhelmed person, but I’m not satisfied. It has become too professional to understand and unclear to the viewer. I find it difficult to say that the refereeing system added objectivity,” Sport24 quotes Rodnina.

She also said that speed had disappeared from modern figure skating.



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