How am I a Yuna-uber, LOL.
Johnny+Tara are hardly impartial. Johnny loves Russia. Tara identifies with young firecrackers who do lots of jumps. Both of them want to get a primetime commentating gig and don't want to mess up their chance by creating controversy.
She performed it with great spring and clean landings, but NOT with an entirely correct lutz edge and NOT rotating the toeloop sufficiently enough. The evidence is there in video for all to see and there is no way to deny it. The toeloop was absolutely underrotated, no question about it.
Sotnikova did not "win the night". She skated in front of Russians who mainly only cared about seeing a Russian win. Her performance was very commendable and she had better spins than Yu-Na and attempted more jump content. However, her execution of the jumps was not flawless, her footwork sequence was absolutely inferior to Yu-Na's, and she is inferior to Yu-Na on the majority of the PCS.
Johnny+Tara are hardly impartial. Johnny loves Russia. Tara identifies with young firecrackers who do lots of jumps. Both of them want to get a primetime commentating gig and don't want to mess up their chance by creating controversy.
She took the risk in the LP and performed it so beautifully. Most importantly, she won the night.
She performed it with great spring and clean landings, but NOT with an entirely correct lutz edge and NOT rotating the toeloop sufficiently enough. The evidence is there in video for all to see and there is no way to deny it. The toeloop was absolutely underrotated, no question about it.
Sotnikova did not "win the night". She skated in front of Russians who mainly only cared about seeing a Russian win. Her performance was very commendable and she had better spins than Yu-Na and attempted more jump content. However, her execution of the jumps was not flawless, her footwork sequence was absolutely inferior to Yu-Na's, and she is inferior to Yu-Na on the majority of the PCS.