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Patrick Chan on new scoring, technology (CNET)

2010-02-19
hi Patrick Annette freed with CBS and cnet I'm curious if you can talk a little bit about the changes in the scoring system some people have said that it you know takes away some of the artistry and focuses on the technical elements and I'm curious if last night's results of think you think that puts an end to that controversy and then as a follow-up can you talk a little bit about the role of Technology in the sport you system has that changed the way we state it has actually taken read before I would say it was probably eighty percent of people and like twenty percent artistic now it's more balance is more like a fifty fifty percent technical and fifty percent artistic so which is great that's the new generation that's how skating is as developed and I think people enjoy that part is getting a bit more technology wise we have come so far we have instant replay and we have computers now to put in the calculations for all the marks and big numbers I mean it's all computerized now and these two write on paper though it is all in touch screen so that's a big change in technology and I think we're really up to date but
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