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olympics 2018 figure skating torrent download 167,476 2018 Winter Olympics Pyeongchang Premium High Res Photos. Browse 167,476 2018 winter olympics pyeongchang stock photos and images available, or start a new search to explore more stock photos and images. Choose your country or region. United States. Hi IBMer! The IBM strategic repository for digital assets such as images and videos is located at dam.ibm.com. This repository is populated with tens of thousands of assets and should be your first stop for asset selection. Click here to request Getty Images Premium Access through IBM Creative Design Services. How to Sound Like an Expert While You Watch Yuzuru Hanyu, Adam Rippon and Nathan Chen Skate. F igure skating is taking center stage at the PyeongChang 2018 Winter Olympics as the Men’s Single Skating Short Program just wrapped up. Yuzuru Hanyu of Japan came away with the top score and rival American figure skater Nathan Chen fell short of expectations, leading many to send optimistic messages and wishes to send hugs online. Fellow American skater Adam Rippon also gave an electrifying performance and garnered a score of 87.95. However, those scores and all the smaller scores it encompasses can be hard to follow. This is your guide to everything you need to know about Olympic figure skating before the Ice Dance and Ladies Single Skating competitions. What are the 2018 figure skating events? Next on the Olympic figure skating schedule are the Men’s Single Free Skating and medal ceremony and Ice Dance before the Ladies’ Single Skating closes out the competition. The men take the ice, where Chen is likely to once again face off against Japan’s Hanyu, the reigning Olympic champion, for the title. In ice dance, another rivalry between France’s Gabriella Papadakis and Guillaume Cizeron and Canada’s Tessa Virtue and Scott Moir will make the competition interesting; the U.S. also has three teams, Madison Chock and Evan Bates, Madison Hubbell and Zachary Donohue, and Maia and Alex Shibutani, who could earn a medal. Finally it’s the women’s turn; training teammates from Russia Evgenia Medvedeva and Alina Zagitova will skate for gold, but don’t count out the U.S.’s Bradie Tennell, who has had a charmed season and could also earn a medal. The first skating competition was the team event, in which 10 countries compete in ladies, men, pairs and ice dance. Canada and Russia are likely to battle for gold, and the U.S. has a chance to make the podium as well. Next are the pairs; the German team of Aliona Savchenko and Bruno Masso, Sui Wenjing and Han Cong of China, and Megan Duhamell and Eric Radford of Canada, all world medalists, will be skating for medals. How does figure skating scoring work? The International Skating Union instituted a new set of judging rules in 2006, based on a Code of Points. Under this system, every element a figure skater completes — a jump, or a spin or footwork — is assigned a point value, or base value. That’s the number you will often see in the small box on the upper left of your TV screen. The leader’s technical score will be on top (L) while the current (C) skater’s score will appear underneath. Every skater starts out with a different number of points depending on what they have decided to include in the routine. Skaters with more technical abilities have a slight edge under this system, since they can start out ahead of their competitors and stay at the top of the leaderboard, as long as they are able to execute everything they had planned. To make things complicated, the nine judges in figure skating can add or subtract up to three points from this base value, depending on how well a skater performed it. (This is what NBC skating commentators Tara Lipinski and Johnny Weir mean when they talk about Grade of Execution, or GOE scores.) If the jump is under rotated, for example (meaning the skater doesn’t complete the full number of revolutions in the air, but finishes the last quarter or half on the ice), it could lose points. So a triple axel worth 8.5 if performed correctly could drop down to 8.0 or less if it’s not. The highest and lowest GOEs from the nine judges are dropped and the remainder are averaged and added to the base value. There is also a Program Components score, which includes how well a skater executed all the skills, their musicality, how well put together the program was, and other less objective measures. The presentation score is judged on a scale of 1 to 10, and the scores from the nine judges are averaged. A skater’s overall score is the combination of the technical elements and the weighted average of the program components scores. Every time a figure skater falls, he or she loses one point. These rules apply for all four of the disciplines — ladies, men, pairs and ice dance. How has figure skating scoring changed? Olympic figure skating used to be relatively easy to watch — at least when it came to understanding the scores. Figure skaters were judged on a 1 to 6.0 scale, with 6.0 representing perfection. Their score was determined by averaging the judges’ marks for their technical prowess and their presentation. Technically, every skater started at 6.0 and judges deducted for mistakes and other errors in execution from there. The problem, as the Great Olympic Figure Skating Judging Scandal of 2002 revealed, was that this measure was subject to, well, a lot of subjectivity. (In the pairs event at the Salt Lake City Games, judges were exchanging votes and manipulating scores to rig the results.) As a result, some changes were made in 2006 to how Olympic figure skating is scored, and those rules are in place for the 2018 Winter Olympic Games in PyeongChang, South Korea. Here’s what to watch for when tuning in to this year’s figure skating events, including how figure skates will be scored. How does team figure skating scoring work? Beginning in 2014, a new Olympic figure skating event was introduced — the team event. Ten countries are invited to participate, and can enter skaters for each of the four disciplines. Just as with the individual events, each discipline — such as pairs — has a short and long program, and after the short program, countries can choose to change up to two skaters. Countries receive points depending on where their skaters finish from first to 10th place, with first place earning 10 points, and 10th place earning one point. The countries with the five highest scores move on to compete in the long program for each discipline, and the top three finishers make the podium. It’s not a perfect system — in any judged sport, there will always be disagreement, dissension and discord, but it’s a better way to measure how one skater’s skills stack up against another’s. What other figure skating terms are there? If you want to sound smart about figure skating, throw in words like axel, salchow and and lutz (and see our video about how to tell them apart). You’ll thank us. Correction: The original version of this story misstated the highest potential score under the old figure skating judging system. It was 6.0, not 10.0. Olympic Games Replay: Fantastic figure skating from Pyeongchang 2018. Electrifying ice dance final featured Canadian flag bearers Tessa Virtue and Scott Moir. As the planet deals with the pandemic and the crisis involving the spread of COVID-19, the world of sport watches and waits alongside the global population. This Saturday, March 21, will be the first of five weeks of programming at CBC Sports which will showcase some of the memorable moments from the most recent editions of the Olympics. The first week features figure skating from the 2018 Olympic Winter Games in Pyeongchang, South Korea. They turned out to be competitions where Canadian skaters excelled. The Canadians won four medals, more than any other country, including a gold medal in the hotly contested team competition. LISTEN | Tessa Virtue on Player's Own Voice: There were plenty of skating highlights on South Korean ice, not the least of which was the electrifying ice dance final featuring the Canadian flag bearers Tessa Virtue and Scott Moir. The duo ended up becoming the most decorated Olympic figure skaters of all-time as a result of their dramatic victory over Gabriella Papadakis and Guillaume Cizeron of France with a riveting performance before a packed house in the rink and countless millions watching around the world on television. "If the Canadians had played to an empty arena, the French surely would have won," Brenda Irving reflected. She called play-by-play of figure skating for CBC at the Games alongside four-time world champion Kurt Browning, and international coach Carol Lane. 'I could feel the excitement' "The audience, in my opinion, played an immeasurable role in the eventual win by Virtue and Moir," Irving continued. I could feel the excitement, electricity, or whatever you want to call it, in the air when the Canadians skated. When they landed in their finishing pose, I honestly felt the judges would have no choice but to succumb to the will of the people." LISTEN | Scott Moir on Player's Own Voice: The other Canadian medals in figure skating were produced by two-time world champions and veteran skaters Meagan Duhamel and Eric Radford who claimed bronze in the pairs competition.

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