Whereas Bernard Suits argued that judged sports such as diving and figure skating are aesthetic performances rather than games, ...
https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/On-Judged-Sports-Hurka...


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Getting rid of judged sports in the Olympics will not eradicate the disappointment that athletes can feel if they don’t medal.
https://www.wellingtonadvertiser.com/judged-sports-in-the-ol...

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Second - judged sports don't belong in the Olympics.
https://beginnertriathlete.com/discussion/forums/thread-view...

Some amount of bias is probably inevitable in judged sports.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/monkey-cage/wp/2014/02/1...

Among judged sports, figure skating uses a unique method of median ranks for determining placement.
https://epubs.siam.org/doi/pdf/10.1137/1.9780898718386.ch39

What are the characteristics of judged sports?
https://www.coursehero.com/file/p5ahr41e/What-are-the-charac...