The true power of women’s figure skating & skating in general

The women’s short program is on NBC and NBC Sports, meaning they’ve put it on both of their top two Olympics outlets. NBC runs a half hour show on NBC Sports every night about figure skating and just about figure skating. No other sport gets that treatment. The invention of the team competition is worth literally hundreds of millions of dollars to NBC and to the Olympics themselves. The big number is the women, followed probably by ice dancing. If figure skating were a separate event from the rest of the games, NBC would pay billions less. And I have to say Yevgenia Medvedeva was astounding, as good as I’ve ever seen, and then Alina Zagitova comes out and outjumps Yevegnia and is almost her equal artistically. Perhaps the two best performances I’ve ever seen in a short program. With good reason, the two highest scores in this method of scoring. In the old system, how could you decide between 6’s for one and 6’s for the other?