In less than two days from now the eyes of the world module be focused on Vancouver, British Columbia and the hundreds of supremely talented athletes who module be competing there. It strength be helpful to have a basic understanding of the events in which these athletes module verify part in order to more fully appreciate the talent that module be showcased over the next some weeks.

Figure skating is one of the events that module verify center stage and also one of the most beautiful and technically difficult of winter sports. It requires an enormous amount of instruction and upbringing to be able to compete at an Olympic level. First, a little story of this popular activity. The prototypal skating club (that we know of) was organized in Scotland 168 eld ago. It was probably done more for training than anything else at that time. 28 eld later someone had the intent to combine the uncreased glide crossways the cover with dance elements and that comprised what we now know as figure skating.

In the Olympic games there are currently three categories of competition in the figure skating event. There are the singles, pairs and cover diversion categories. In the singles event (men and women compete separately). the participants must perform octad maneuvers of varying degree of travail and conclude with a segment of free style skating. In the pairs category, the goal is to synchronize movements while performing much feats as overhead lifts, throws, spins and death spirals. (sounds a bit ominous don’t you agree) The cover diversion is a edition of room diversion performed on the cover and is spectacular to observe.

Scoring is based on a 6.0 system wherein marks are given for technical merit, required elements and presentation. There are 16 judges, though the judging field is quickly narrowed to a randomly selected 9 from which the maximal reason and the lowest reason are eliminated. These results in the seven judging scores which are then averaged to select the overall winner.