Olympic groups of onlookers went wild a week ago when Mirai Nagasu handled a triple axel, turning into the first U.S. female figure skater to turn a whole 3.5 revolutions noticeable all around at the Winter Games.

In the interim, male figure skaters have aced the fourfold hop, that is, four revolutions noticeable all around. In any case, no skater, male or female, has pulled off a quintuple-turn hop.

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“I’m in the camp that I’m dicey that that will occur,” said Jim Richards, a teacher of biomechanics in the Department of Kinesiology and Applied Physiology at the University of Delaware. Be that as it may, other human-biomechanics specialists are increasingly hopeful.

“I am an individual who inclines toward the ‘yes’ side,” said Deborah King, a teacher in the Department of Exercise and Sport Sciences at Ithaca College, in New York. Figure skaters could accomplish a quintuple-turn bounce in the event that they culminated the key parts associated with a pivot, she revealed to Live Science.

At the point when skaters leave the ice, they require rakish force — that is, rotational vitality that decides how quick and how much the skaters turn. When they’re noticeable all around, they have to use that rakish energy by making themselves into a symmetrical, straight line — folding their arms over their chests and folding their legs and lower legs — so they can turn quicker. By pulling in their arms, skaters convey their bodies’ masses nearer to the hub of pivot, something that causes the luxurious sounding material science term “snapshot of latency” to diminish. Basically, the snapshot of idleness neutralizes precise force (the turn). Result? The skater turns quicker.

Furthermore, the time they spend noticeable all around relies upon their hop stature. The higher they bounce, the additional time they’ll have for upheavals before the restlessly anticipated arriving back on the ice, the specialists said.

As a rule, female skaters will in general hop between 15 inches and 20 inches (38 and 51 centimeters) and men as a rule bounce between 20 inches and 23 inches (51 and 58 cm) vertically off the ice, Richards said.