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Among them, the proposal to add Synchro to the roster of figure skating events, which I wholeheartedly support!
Also among them, though unrelated to figure skating, is a proposal to include more mixed-gender events. This is fascinating to me, as I've always felt that some sports needlessly separate the genders. Sports like bobsleigh, which to its credit has just made the 4-man event gender neutral.
Synchro skating is already mixed gender. While you don't see a lot of dudes on teams, it does indeed happen (There is one on my old team, Gotham City Synchro!). While I don't think mixing the genders would work well for singles skating - there is too much of a disparity in the technical merit between Ladies and Men - why couldn't it work for pairs and dance? Why can't we have male or female teams rather than the strict male-female pairing? I don't know the answer, but I say it's worth a thought.
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