Olympics: When Sport Requires Studying

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Seemingly bent on ruing the popular sport, Figure Skating’s leaders have invented a scoring system so complicated, one has to take a seminar just to figure out what’s going on.

So, if you’ve given up on the idea that sport should simply require watching in order to enjoy, here’s a virtual boot camp on skating’s new Rubik’s Cube.

Long gone are the days of the iconic 6.0 = perfection judging.

So, break out that Texas Instruments calculator, and forget the popcorn, watching the Olympics now requires homework.

How To Understand the Olympic Figure Skating Scoring System on Howcast

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