The ISU Federation is looking to dose the gap between the technical and artistic sides of the sport. The ISU may soon look at decreasing the value of quads, a change which could have a significant impact on skaters like Boyang Jin of China. A top official at die International Skating Union said the organization is looking at "radical change" in figure skating in order to achieve a better balance between the athletic and artistic sides of the sport. The change would involve substantially lowering the base values of quadruple jumps and. for pairs, quadruple throws. For three of die five quads being done in men`s singles, the reduction would be more than 10 percent, according to proposed numbers obtained by icenetwork. "This is die direction line I am working on with die intent to make a radical change for die future development of die sport, hoping to bring back the popularity that figure skating used to have in the past," Italy`s Fabio Bianchctti, the chair of die ISU Single & Pair Skating Committee, wrote in an email. Another change may include replacing the current short program and free skate with what would effectively be an athletic program and an artistic program. Each would award full medals in events like the Olympics and the world championships, and there also would be a full medal for the all-around winner. Everything is possible," Bianchetti wrote. "At the moment, it is absolutely too early to say anything. The intention is to have three different medals: one for technical, one for artistic and one for all-around, but how it will be for sure is impossible to say now."
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