Is Javi close to the ideal? Is he Asian? I can give you number of Asian men around me who I am sure even if they were trained from young but could never rotate even up to a double.
Again, if we have 10 Boyang, 10 Yuzuru, I can say Asian men are having advantage over the rest of the world. But do we have?
Mozer and you are making as if this sport is not figure skating but rotating competition which it's not.
Boyang medaled at Boston because Patrick bombed. Remember they put a Patrick who had a meh SP but great LP over a Boyang who were clean in both programs. You have forgotten 4CC?
ISU can always adjust the rules to regain the balance for those with better skating skill. This is skating competition after all.
You are very smart. You ignore those parts of my post what you can't answer.
But maybe my english is so poor and I couldn't explain my thoughts. I will try again. And please, let the racist card stuff, because that is insult on me.
I love and admire every athletes! With that logic the world's sport is a big racist game.
Javi isn't a big guy, but he isn't Asian. And I didn't say only the Asian men can be good skaters, good jumpers. And let the skating skills because that is irrelevant in our debate.
Yuzuru is a big skater he is one of the best jumpers not because of he is Japanese but because he is very talented, hard-worker!!!, he has one of the best coaches in the World,
he was able to use his physical characteristics. Without his other qualities he would be one of those Asian skaters who are competing in the Chinese and Japanese Nat. Champs but don't achieve any result, and can jump only doubles.
I was an athlete and I'm working in sports. As I said and you agree with that the selection for the sports is a wise thing. You didn't deny a kind of body type is good of a particular sport. If those physical characteristics are found in some humans,
they have a good chance become a good athlete in that particular sport. But as I said, it's just a chance.
And there are always exceptions! This is a wonderful thing which makes the sport more exciting, interesting!!!
For example:
highy jumpers: they are very tall, thin guys in general. Most of them aren't Asian. Right ?The bests: Javier Sotomayor, Patrik Sjöberg,Stefan Holm..ups! Exceptions!: Stefan Holm is just 181 cm! And Zhu Jianhua (China) who is Asian but 193 cm! He was a recorder, too!
basketball players: tall guys in general.... an exception: Jao Ming he is very tall but Asian.
the best sprinters: most of them are Afro-American, but there are exceptions. But that is fact the only one non Afro-American Christophe Lemaitre has better time as 10sec on 100m!
the best long-distance runners: Kenyans, Ethiopians. exception: Lasse Viren...
handball( the American posters probably don't know this sport) the players are tall and very strong, big guys and girls. Very succesful nations in this sport: Norway, Fance, Sweden, Denmark, Spain etc. Exception: in the 80's was a South- Korean world champion team...
etc., etc.,
I think that there is nothing wrong in it. And if we don't say about it openly, it is still exists.
And we all know the figure skating is very complex sport.
So: physical characteristics+talent+strong-will+hard work+good coach+good jump technic+good nerves =outstanding skater, jumper.
Again, Mozer's comment about Asian athletes is unfair because it's not the Asian skaters who won at Boston. None of them won WC for 2 consecutive years. So why is she complaining it's unfair to compete with Asian skaters? Her teams did worse than Sui/Han who got silver at Boston, accept that and train harder.
If she said this or if she wanted to say this that is stupid, of course. That isn't unfair they worked hardly for the results.
I wonder if those two things have any connection with each other.
