How do the Special Olympics figure skating rules differ from the traditional Olympics?

Figure skating in Olympics?

  • So I've been a fan if figure skating for a while and I loved this season of figure skating but I was just curious what the steps are to make it to the Olympics. I'm just ...show more

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    Umm, I have no idea where the other poster is form but nationals with an axel?! Try double axel, in my country you'd need all the doubles plus a few solid triples to even think about nationals. And split jumps are not given individual points(i.e a toe-loop receives a value) so it wouldn't actually boost your score. It's not an element. National skater look at more difficult spin levels, with changes of position/edge/foot. Flying spins are also a common feature. To get to the Olympics in my country you are usually first be on a development team. This means that basically your training is being monitored by the sports governing body in your country. Here, a skater must meet certain requirements by a certain age(i.e have passed a certain test my an age). This is a way of spotting talented children and helps them. You don't have to be on the development team to be selected for the national team- some skaters achieve the targets outside of the age brackets. You are invited to represent the country, and it goes from there. On the build up to the Olympics your country will know how many skaters it is sending, then the selection process begins.

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Two people from my figure skating club came back from Olympic trials, unfortunately they didn't make it, but one of the girls I have known from when I first started skating 11 years ago and she's just turned 23, has five US and European Championship events under her belt and countless state and national competition experience, so you don't have to be an Olympian to be considered a professional skater. Hell, there's a girl who skates at my club who's been touring with a Stars on Ice type deal for seven years and she is officially considered a pro skater. I think once you've gotten good enough to make it to a US or European Championship event, you're a professional, and from that point on, you can start looking at the Olympics. Although I know it's not likely, the Olympics is a dream of mine. I'm a pairs skater since the age of 14, and am now 19. I started doing state championships and nationals by the time I was 12 or 13, when I was still a singles skater. At that kind of level an average skater's skill set will include axels, toe loops, double toe loops Biellman, sit and camel spins, stuff like Spread Eagles, backward crossovers are a given. Better level skaters will have their double axels clean, laybacks, I-spins, I even saw one girl at my 2009 nationals land a split jump (she ended up placing first, surprise, surprise!). Pairs skating is slightly different, the last time I was in competition was last October, mine and my partners long program included side-by-side camel spins, double axels, one side-by-side triple, which we unfortunately didn't get down clean, then you get the lifts, which obviously, can't be achieved in singles skating. Our program called for a tabletop lift, a death spiral, straight-line lifts, headbangers and twist lifts (which are scary as sh*t! haha) Yeah, so I hope that helped answer your question :)

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