Category: snow and ice

tumbling on Ice Skates

I believe this is Sebastian Mendez at the 2023 Skate Canada International Exhibition Gala.

Nile Wilson wins Dancing on Ice

Congratulations to Nile and partner Olivia Smart.

Nile was the first male competitor ever to show the ‘headbanger‘ — 😀. It’s actually banned in competitive skating.

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https://youtu.be/o8krNjR4_R0

Figure Skating is raising minimum age

Big Air Olympic Champ Anna Gasser

Anna was a gymnast who didn’t switch to Snowboard until age-18.

She can related to Simone having the ‘twisties’.

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Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

Snowboard legend Shaun White

Competitors reflect on Shaun’s legacy at the Beijing Olympics.

They all grew up idolizing him.

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Olympic Slopestyle

I have no idea what these amazing athletes are doing.

How do they even keep track of so many multiple rotations?

And who wants to land backwards at full speed?

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Women’s BIG AIR Olympics

Austria’s Anna Gasser successfully defended her Snowboard Big Air title …

… Zoi Sadowski-Synnott grabbing silver and Japan’s Murase Kokomo taking home the bronze.

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Ski Jumping Judging Bias

Ski jumping competitions involve subjective evaluations by judges from different countries.

This may lead to nationalistic bias, according to which judges assign higher scores to their compatriots.

To test this claim empirically, we exploit within-performance variation of scores from all World Cup, World Championship, and Olympic Games competitions between the 2010/11 and 2016/17 seasons. (15,000 jumps)

Our findings confirm that judges assign significantly higher scores to their compatriots. The magnitude of this nationalistic bias is significantly higher in more corrupt countries.

We do not find that judges assign significantly different scores to jumpers whose compatriots are present on the judging panel. …

March 2021 – Scandinavian Journal of Economics – Nationalistic Bias among International Experts: Evidence from Professional Ski Jumping

Most biased were the Russian judges. Judges from Finland and Norway showed no bias.

video analysis in Figure Skating

Seems to me Omega is ahead of Fujitsu in technology.