2018 Winter Olympics PyeongChang

Quote: ams288

I'm by no means a figure skating expert, but I think it's a risk-reward calculation. Doing a triple axel is a high risk move that few women can successfully do. When you get to the Olympics, I think most women would rather do a clean routine than risk a fall.

I've seen it described as "high risk, medium reward" for women. If you botch it you could blow your whole routine, but the exhaustion from doing it successfully may take away your energy from doing other maneuvers which will get you more points.

While the media goes gaga over the
Kim sister, is anybody asking who's
doing her day job while she's gone,
overseeing the genocide of N Koreans?
She's the one in charge of life and death,
when she's not posing for mag covers.

Quote: Pacomartin

I've seen it described as "high risk, medium reward" for women. If you botch it you could blow your whole routine, but the exhaustion from doing it successfully may take away your energy from doing other maneuvers which will get you more points.

I appears to me watching the mens downhill snowboarding competition, that doing wild and difficult maneuvers, [triple flips plus], that if they flub, they lose. So one wonders why they attempt such difficult maneuvers? It looks like the athletes either attempt those moves or lose. They may fall and lose, but the winners all so something really wild, that win. So the attempt has to be made, to do the supremely difficult.

Play it safe with no errors, and lose anyway, or go for the gold with incredibly hard maneuvers and maybe succeed?

Quote: Evenbob

While the media goes gaga over the
Kim sister,

For a second there I thought you were talking about Khloe, and did a wth. hehe

Global Warming is interfering with the
games, it's so cold and windy they had
to postpone a bunch of them. Darn that
warming..

Bob, every Olympic athlete could do what the so called "ninja warriors" do, but none of the ninjas could do anything the Olympians can do, does that tell you something?

Quote: FrGamble

Bob, every Olympic athlete could do what the so called "ninja warriors" do, but none of the ninjas could do anything the Olympians can do, does that tell you something?

Some of the ninja warriors ARE former Olympians, FYI.

https://nypost.com/2016/08/04/why-olympians-flock-to-american-ninja-warrior/

Quote: Pacomartin

I've seen it described as "high risk, medium reward" for women. If you botch it you could blow your whole routine, but the exhaustion from doing it successfully may take away your energy from doing other maneuvers which will get you more points.

I assume they are prepared to alter routines slightly depending on their point standings. Especially from 4th place on up.

A triple axel the highest base-valued triple jump, above other triple jumps such as the
triple toe loop (4.1 points)
triple salchow (4.2 points)
triple loop (5.1 points)
triple flip (5.3 points)
triple lutz (6.0 points)

double axel (3.3 points) Most female skaters perform this.
triple axel (8.5 points) Male skaters normally perform this. Only eight female skaters have landed this in international competitions.

Quote: petroglyph

It looks like the athletes either attempt those moves or lose.

Obviously the coaches look at the potential value for the entire routine. While the points for the triple axel are very high, they have to balance that against the possibility of a fall. Although Tonya Harding completed the TA in competition, we don't know how often she fell in practice or even how many times she failed in competition.

Quote: FrGamble

Bob, every Olympic athlete could do what the so called "ninja warriors" do, but none of the ninjas could do anything the Olympians can do, does that tell you something?

And the Olympians turn down the million dollar prize, why? "The season concluded with a victory: Geoff Britten was the first to complete Stage 4 with a second remaining; however, Isaac Caldiero achieved the Stage 4 rope climb in a faster time and was awarded the grand prize of $1,000,000 and the title of "American Ninja Warr"