Evolution of judging in figure skating
The history of figure skating judging can generally be divided into three stages: the emergence of figure skating as a sport from 1897 to 1901, the gradual improvement of the 6.0 rule system from 1901 to 2002, and the stage after the introduction of the new ISU rules from 2002. New international figure skating rules are generally favorable for universal and stable players, and are more objective, however, they have a significant bias towards the technical components of the program, in particular, jumps. In general, the main disadvantages of the existing system at present are the following: extremely large weight of evaluation of the technical elements of the program and, at the same time, very high dependence on the Technical Specialist.