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This reminds me of the introduction of the V-style [0] in ski jumping: it was originally deemed inappropriate by the judges, who scored it lower, but it provide
by BerislavLopac 3y ago
This reminds me of the introduction of the V-style [0] in ski jumping: it was originally deemed inappropriate by the judges, who scored it lower, but it provided so much more distance that today it's the most widely used technique.
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ski_jumping_techniques#V-style https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ski_jumping_techniques#V-style
- Doxin 3y agoIt's still wild to me that ski-jumping is a jury sport. Seems to me that it'd be simplest to just... measure distance? But I guess distance is one of the least important things to the score.