Couch Gymnast posed this question:
What do you think is the most critical issue in need of addressing with the Code/rules this year and why?
By far the most popular answers were:
• tie-breaker rule at Olympics
• two-per-country rule
Next was the issue of “Artistry”. Rewarding better those WAGs who include interesting and appealing composition and choreography.
My own answer:
Execution scores are “boxed”. The range between average gymnast and best-in-competition too small.
FIG keeps talking about better rewarding “Artistry”. If they simply applied the current Code of Points as written, those gymnasts with good line, technique and form would be rewarded. Problem solved.
The whole point of separating Difficulty judges from Execution judges is so that they would have more time to record the execution deductions. Yet E panels are less discriminating now than under the old Code.
Uncle Tim:
For quite some time, the judges have been rather generous with their execution scores, but it sounds like things are about to change. Steve Butcher, the newly elected head of the Men’s Technical Committee, told International Gymnast that “both [the men’s and women’s] technical committees are working very hard to see their execution deductions applied more stringently in the upcoming cycle.”
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