#Olympics #FigureSkating #RepetetiveMotionSyndrome #Coaching
It occurred to me only this morning that two apparent losses of apparently assured gold medals by both Team #ChockBates and #IliaMalinin do have this one thing in common: coaches who believed that a reprise of routines that previously won gold would win gold again, and both got different results.

Coaches, for a clue as to how to not let that happen again, as Ilia put it, consult with people who frequently knit different patterns because they know better than you do that when the mind/body connection is involved in a repeated pattern, it will go into error-prone autopilot rather than produce an attentively fresh performance. A knitter is capable of correcting errors even when they're discovered after several rows of production, but a skater has no such option.

Coaches, take a tip from the knitting community: NEVER do reprises.