First, the content is different.
Pair skating includes short programs and free skating, and the short programs are performed by the athletes at their own choice within the specified time of two minutes and forty seconds. Only one action is allowed to be added to each action, and the referee will evaluate the required action score and performance score according to the quality, content arrangement and music cooperation of the athletes. In synchronized freestyle skating, the athlete chooses music and completes an optional action within 4 minutes and 30 seconds. The referee grades and performs according to the difficulty, quality, action arrangement, music coordination, posture and expression, and the evaluation of the original venue utilization. And free skating is divided into double free skating and single free skating short programs are also divided into single, short programs and double short programs.
Second, the evaluation rules are different.
The short program consists of three different jumps, three different rotations and two different illegal moving and connecting steps. Free skating consists of jumping, rotating steps and various postures. The performance of free skating consists of a specified number of jumps, rotations and various postures. The program mainly highlights the expression of music and the music chosen by artists. Arrange a balanced content program according to the rules. The free skating competition time is four minutes and thirty seconds for men's singles and doubles. The results of women's single four-minute freestyle skating include technical level and performance, and the performance freestyle skating includes sliding technical performance and performance. The competition time is from three minutes and thirty seconds to four minutes and thirty seconds. Short programs should be held before freestyle skating, but not on the same day. Short programs, that is, choreography, must slide after the prescribed pattern and before freestyle skating.
Third, summary.
In a word, free skating and short program are both a kind of figure skating. The short programs of figure skating in the Winter Olympics are mostly prescribed movements, which mainly examine the basic skills of athletes. However, free skaters have more room to play and more difficult movements. Free skating is more exciting than short programs, and athletes will also show their skills in free skating. In the free skating, it is easy to open the gap between players.