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So, even taking Mao Asada's performance out of the equation, Yu-Na should not have won the LP at 2008 Worlds.
Rather, Sonia Bianchetti commented that yuna's 2008-LP score was marked low.
"The fall on the Axel, however, was not Mao's only error in the elements. She had an edge call on the triple Lutz and a downgrade on the loop in the triple flip/triple loop combination. Asada had the second best technical score, by 0.01 point over Carolina Kostner, while in Program Components she was scored best, with a total of 60.57 points."
"In my opinion Yuna was by far the best skater that night. Still, her marks in the components did not reflect this. Her total score was 58.56, just 0.4 ahead of Kostner and almost 1.03 less than Asada. Had she been marked correctly, although she was only fifth in the short program, she might have won the World title."
http://www.soniabianchetti.com/writings_scandinavium.html