I'm glad you may have found the music. That's fabulous.
I know people get confused by this, so for your audience, I'll note one thing re: the short program. It looks like a skater can do two quads, but they can't. Although a skater can do a quad as an individual element (out of steps) or as part of a combination, they can't do both. They can't do two quads in the short. The way the actual rule is written is a bit confusing, so the ISU has a bit about "short program clarifications" which calls this out.
Brian Joubert is rumoured (because he said to French reporters that he'd do this) to be thinking of doing two quads in his short this year. But that would be idiotic, because one of them would not count, and worse, he'd then have "missed" that other element. So we think the reporters got this wrong.
And an interesting point, for your audience: the time of the program starts from when the skater first starts skating. Thus, for example, Bolero, from Torvill and Dean - all that bit they do at the beginning, on their knees, is not counted in the time, and is not scored. Chris Dean did this purposefully. He started them on their knees so they could use that time choreographically. If a skater does run overtime, not only do they get a deduction for that, but any element they do after the end time is not scored.
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Date: 2007-10-23 02:35 pm (UTC)I know people get confused by this, so for your audience, I'll note one thing re: the short program. It looks like a skater can do two quads, but they can't. Although a skater can do a quad as an individual element (out of steps) or as part of a combination, they can't do both. They can't do two quads in the short. The way the actual rule is written is a bit confusing, so the ISU has a bit about "short program clarifications" which calls this out.
Brian Joubert is rumoured (because he said to French reporters that he'd do this) to be thinking of doing two quads in his short this year. But that would be idiotic, because one of them would not count, and worse, he'd then have "missed" that other element. So we think the reporters got this wrong.
And an interesting point, for your audience: the time of the program starts from when the skater first starts skating. Thus, for example, Bolero, from Torvill and Dean - all that bit they do at the beginning, on their knees, is not counted in the time, and is not scored. Chris Dean did this purposefully. He started them on their knees so they could use that time choreographically. If a skater does run overtime, not only do they get a deduction for that, but any element they do after the end time is not scored.