With Winter Olympics around the corner, I dread the site of those triple and double quadruple axles, with legs, arms, and God knows what else flying through the air while the music plays on. The kind of athletic prowess this requires has nothing to do with music. So they should either discontinue the music, or the ridiculous mid-air somersaults. Skating should be about style and gracefully staying in time with the music.

If you get my drift, the jumps belong out in the snow with the snowboard and skiing airborne acrobatics.

When the figure skaters and their coaches decide to take out those jumps and actually skate with the music, that will a day I look forward to. The guy who recently placed second in the Sochi trials — his coach was an ice dancer and it showed.

Just doing a quadruple? It’s just athletics. What does that have to do with dancing? After all the hard work and training, watching someone fall down once after a quadruple axle and then seeing all their points come down, you think: is it worth it?

Figure skaters: Rethink all those jumps and what they have to do with dancing!