federations promoting skaters

[judiz]

How do federations "promote" their skaters to the judges in order to encourage the judges to hold them up at competitions?

[oubik]

How do federations "promote" their skaters to the judges in order to encourage the judges to hold them up at competitions?

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[Polymer Bob]

That might work at national events, but I don't think it's possible to influence ISU judges that way. At the 2009 US Nationals, the USFSA judges promoted Alissa Czisny........

................... then the ISU judges promptly demoted her.

[Sylvia]

IMO, Czisny won her 2009 National title primarily due to her excellent SP. If she had skated a similar SP performance at her next two international events, the ISU judges might have rewarded her, but we'll never know...

oubik!

[gkelly]

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Nah, I think the comes before the . That way you can get people to forget their preference for your skater was due to any outside influence at all.

[orbitz]

It used to be that being U.S. National Champion going into Worlds or Olympics carried a lot of weight (at least for the women anyway). Now ... not so much.