| Many sports, which judge for creativity, personality, feel | | | | with judges in major world competitions and so one |
| and spontaneity, are difficult to determine who is the | | | | has to wonder if like the Tour de France that maybe |
| best in competition. And yet the American People love | | | | finger skating has lost its legitimacy due to these |
| figure skating and often immortalize the top | | | | judging crimes? |
| performers. But how can anyone be sure that the | | | | Unfortunately in all of this it becomes extremely unfair |
| best skaters actually win? Sure they have mandatory | | | | to the athletes who practice for 6-8 hours a day to |
| maneuvers to do and judges do know the complexity | | | | perform at that World Class level. There seems to be |
| and difficulty of various other tricks and yet so much | | | | way too much politics in figure skating and that is a |
| else is arbitrary. | | | | travesty, because it takes talent, strength, nerves of |
| Often as I watch these performances I totally disagree | | | | steel and sheer strength to pull off a peak |
| with the judges and feel that somehow the winners | | | | performance like that. Please consider all this in 2006. |
| are rigged. In the last 10 years we have seen scandals | | | | |