I just finished watching the tape of the SP. I know there's 142 pages of posts so I'm sure this has all been beaten to death, but OMG! I was still in shock over Julia falling and still getting the marks she got when Kostner got within a point of Kim, which I thought was absurd, even if Kostner skated great. Then I saw what they gave to Sotnikova?? Holy freaking cow. What a joke. I don't care if Kim was no better than 2010, she was still by far the best today in my mind, at least by 5 points or so. I guess the question was answered re: whether it would hurt Kim to skate so early. BTW, I also thought Gold was overmarked too, with 3 scratchy landings. And Mao is in 16th!!! ***? OK, deep breath. I still give Kim a great shot to get the gold, bec I think she'll be fabulous in the LP and Sotnikova will make her usual blunders in the 2nd half of her program. I guess the judges love Kostner so much that if she skates totally clean she can win but she doesn't usually do that so I give her the silver. Gold might be too far back to medal but if she's perfect and Adelina makes several errors who knows. Julia probably can also sneak in there if she scores 140+ like she did in the team event but that's unlikely.