- Joined
- Jun 16, 2010
You make no sense. There was ONE US judge on the panel, and the technical panel was RUS-ITA-LAT. There couldn't have been a concerted effort to crown anyone. If anything, Sotnikova got the gentlest treatment from the judges, with ultrahigh PCS scores despite major mistakes in both SP and FS.
Agree. Sotnikova was definitely gifted in LP PCS as the mistakes were jarring and really affected the performance. While normally Sotnikova would deserve much higher PCS than Gao, with Sotnikova's performance and Gao being more inspired than usual, I thought the PCS between them should have been roughly tied.
I do agree on Christina deserving to win the SP or atleast be closer to Wagner and Sotnikova than she was. Wagner had a mistake and a much easier program jump wise, Sotnikova had the same jumps and a big mistake, so while those two have some stronger elements and much better presentation qualities they shouldnt have been 4 points ahead.