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Laura Lepisto - - - 2011 World Champion? Yes or.... No?

jian10

Rinkside
Joined
Mar 26, 2010
When Tat remarked a while ago that "she let Mao down" I have to wonder if she realized that Mao's doomsday LP could never beat Yuna's Gershwin LP (unless Yuna had a terrible skate).

When did she say that?
 

chuckm

Record Breaker
Joined
Aug 31, 2003
Country
United-States
It's almost funny how 6.0 based this Lepistö bronze debate is at times.

In CoP, when the judges rate a skater, they don't know if their marks are enough to put the skater ahead or behind another skater. The judges can't decide to give a medal to a skater over another skater. If Lepistö's bronze was a surprise to us, it might have been a surprise to the judges as well.

Nonsense. If judges want to put Skater A over Skater B, they will give A more +GOE and less -GOE than skater B. They will also give Skater A PCS scores in the upper 7s, while keeping Skater B's PCS scores in the upper 6s---lower 7s. That's easy enough to do.

Remember, a panel is made up of INDIVIDUAL judges, each with his/her own preferences and prejudices. In addition, the marks of only 5 of the 9 judges count. Only 7 of the original 9 judges are randomly selected, and then the high and low marks are thrown out. If it so happens that the final 5 judges all marked A higher than B, then A will beat B.
 
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