Re: Grand Prix format changed

"Julie" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> I just looked at the Grand Prix Final schedule on the USFSA website, and it
> looks like the skaters are no longer required to skate 2 long programs. When
> did the ISU decide to change this -- with CoP system perhaps??

They put out new rules for the GPF every year, and that's just this
year's rules.  Probably it's a combination of the scheduling of the
event less than 2 weeks after the end of the last regular Grand Prix,
so that the skaters have no time to prepare or train the second
program this year, and the fact that it is being held at altitude
where many of the skaters have trouble getting through just one free
skate.

-Sandra the cynic