Flummoxed and Flutzed

It is true, I think, that the new skating rules have made the programs look largely the same, with a few exceptions now and then. Lots of beautiful skating from the women as well as the men, though. Shizuka Arakawa was great. The two with the most to lose, Cohen and Slutskaya, were a little nervous and tight.
Every four years I have to find a website to guide me through the salchows and loops and stuff. This year I found a reference to the “flutz,” the lutz that wobbles back from the last-minute outside edge to really be a flip off the inside edge The super-slow motion on the triple lutz that Sasha Cohen fell on at the beginning showed so clearly that it was a flip. Why does she get credit for it?
I’m so tired of Dick Button. So much a back-in-the-day-when-things-were-beautiful kind of guy now. I hope he retires soon. Scott Hamilton is very pleasurable and interesting to listen to.