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...decks. Skateboarders speed and rumble all around the Picasso sculpture in downtown Chicago. They come from as far away as Scotland to maneuver Milwaukee's Turf Skateboard Park. Georgia's Savannah Slamma is an annual springtime ritual for boarders to show their stuff. Says Scott Oster, 18, a pro skater out of Los Angeles: "Kids are ripping all over...
...Alex McGowan, Thomas' coach, held his nose in disgust. Later, McGowan seemed to accuse the three judges from East bloc countries -- Czechoslovakia, the Soviet Union and Witt's native East Germany -- of protecting Thomas' rival. "We don't want this political nonsense," he said. "We just want the best skater...
...judges can be much more subjective when it comes to artistic presentation. A skater's outfit, carriage, music and even facial expressions all are grist for evaluation. Thomas' low artistic marks in the short program may have been due to her choice of music. The high-energy selection, recorded by a group called Dead or Alive, was definitely not a lullaby of Broadway...
...comes the part that even an INF negotiator might find confusing. All those 5.4s and 5.8s are not simply totted up to determine the winner. Instead, each skater gets a technical and an artistic score from each judge. These marks are added together and indicate whether a particular judge rates a particular skater first, second or, say, tenth. If a judge is notably stingy, never giving a grade higher than 5.5, the lucky skater who gets that 5.5 would almost certainly win that judge's nod. If two skaters tie on a judge's card, the skater with...
There are limits. Blatant partisanship can lead to a written warning or suspension. But as long as judges assess competitors from their own countries, using their own perspectives, a completely fair judge will be as difficult to find as a 6.0 skater. Or an unbiased spectator...