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- Nov 7, 2008
Miki was totally robbed here. SHE should have been in 3rd place. None of her jumps were more than 1/4 short; those downgrades were horrendous.
They should have given her that Quad, she did it so well. Some of her attempts at it have clearly being short but this one deserved a pass.
It REALLY pisses me off that her 2Axel-3Toe was called as underrotated when Kostner's was not.
If the callers are going to be so incredibly strict with the downgrades, the rule absolutely must be changed. This has been out of hand for much too long. Competitions are coming down to a coin flip on whether or not a jump will be called as downgraded. Mao lost Short Program for that reason and she certainly shouldn't have, given the big mistake Yu-Na made (and I like Yu-Na's program more).
Mao's UR in sp was pretty obvious in naked eye but I agree that Miki's UR was very borderline call. I thought she nailed her quad until I saw replay but I wondered whether judges would ratify her quad considering importance of that jump and it isn't like she missed by much. These days Miki just doesn't seem to get any love from judges.