Olympic skating pairs: Why not toss the man?

i think that whole question was thoroughly addressed here.

It comes out of dance traditions I think. I have seen some pairs skaters fling each other in a series of moves.

Would leave an awful mess on the rink.Besides being thoroughly indecent I would have thought.

@aphilotus I love that movie, kills me every time.

Something about the beauty and magic, the flow and the rhythm is just totally destroyed when I picture a muscle bound woman tossing up a scrawny dude.

Gender norms, obviously – god forbid a woman tosses a man…in my head, it’s possible, clearly, but this ‘disturbs’ people’s sensibilities

Hmmmmm, dont women ‘toss’ men fairly frequently…?

Agree. Toss the man, keep the skates.

Partly size.
Partly tradition.

@Simone_De_Beauvoir Well to be perfectly honest, the whole thing seems kinda girly to begin with… might as well just have a woman toss a woman.

Sounds like a cool idea – I’d like to see it.

@NaturalMineralWater fine by me but do answer this: if it’s so girly, wouldn’t you, a grown man, be able to do it? would you?

The Wife unit gave me quite a scowl when I brought it up last night. She brought up Dwarf tossing and I completely lost it. Another sport altogether.

I saw that once during a skating“free dance” competition.Funny as hell to me as I would have no problem throwing a man in the air.LOL!
Scott Hamilton???He is no challenge!He is but a tiny ladybug!

My boyfriend asked the same question, hehe. We were also hoping to see a male-male duo a la Blades of Glory, but no dice.

@majorrich Please tell me Dwarf Tossing is a real sport!!!!

I have happy drunken memories of dwarf tossing in a campus bar. It was a regular event.

@majorrich I feel that my University years were wasted now… how could we have been so blind as to miss out?!

lol