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Olympics 2010 Figure Skating

Information on the sport Jackson Haines is considered to be the founding father of modern figure skating in the 1860's, it was established in Vienna, Austria where all the people adored his carefully choreographed, ballet-influenced style. Figure skating was an Olympic sport before there was an Olympic Winter Games. Figure skating first appeared at the London 1908 Olympic Summer Games with events for pairs and singles. They had indoor ice rinks for the summer olympics. Ice dancing joined the Olympic Winter Games in 1976, when the Games were held in Innsbruck. Before Haines, figure skating concentrated largely on required figures: skating a figure eight, several times exactly the same way and differant movements.But Haines brought in musicians to play on the ice while he skated, while adding interesting costumes and exciting spins and pirouettes.

Here are a few tricks from the sport of figure skating: Axel Jump Blade Camel Spin Combination Spin Compulsory Dance Crossover Death Spiral

How It Works At the Olympic Games, each of figure skaters four disciplines are adjudicated by a separate panel of 9 International Skating Union (ISU) championship judges using a computer scoring system to measure the quality of each performance. Before each event, there is a secret and random draw to determine which judges scores will form the result of the segment. Only seven of the 9 scores are used. A new draw is done for each segment.During each performance the judges assign a grade of execution (GOE) to every element that is executed. This makes up the technical score, at the conclusion of each performance, the judges assign additional program component scores that measure the overall technical and presentation abilities of the skater or team. The individual or team with the highest totals of technical and program component scores is deemed the winner.In addition to the panel of judges, there is also a technical panel that determines the name and the level of difficulty of each element as it is performed.