I would disagree with that assessment. I would argue the moves were banned because black women were doing them and everything black women do in figure skating is considered “athletic but not graceful”, which is of course transparently racist bullshit.
Figure skating judging is very political and very racist. If the pearl clutching safety concerns were true, football and many other sports would be banned outright. It’s not like there was some epidemic of skaters somehow cutting themselves with their own skates during backflips. The old guard institutions just don’t like moves that the white women can’t or won’t do.
