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Reactions and criticism of judging by Network commentators - NBC, CBC, BBC, etc
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Kim is not going to be referred as 2x Olympic Champion. Come on, get your head straight. She will no doubt be remembered as an all-time great and Olympic Champion, but they're not going to erase this event. It'll be a hotly debated result for years to come and will be remembered as a controversial outcome, but it's something that unfortunately this sport is known for.
Well, I was reading Oh No They Didn't, and general public seems pretty upset at Kim's scores:
http://ohnotheydidnt.livejournal.com/85863540.html?page=170#comments
Their expletive-ridden reactions to the scoring go on for pages in the comments. It's pretty funny, actually.
I can't get over Judge 7's scores for Adelina:
GOE:
3
3
3
3
3
-1 (the combo jump where she stepped out)
3
3
3
2
3
PCS:
9.5
9.5
9.75
9.75
9.75
From the way this was scored, this judge obviously "thought" it was a WR performance. It was really good but it doesn't come close to Yuna's FS in Vancouver.
I'll bet that it was one of the two judges in question:
Judge whose husband is the head of the Russian Federation or the Ukraine judge once suspended for fixing the Nagano Olympics.
GOE:
3
3
3
3
3
-1 (the combo jump where she stepped out)
3
3
3
2
3
PCS:
9.5
9.5
9.75
9.75
9.75
From the way this was scored, this judge obviously "thought" it was a WR performance. It was really good but it doesn't come close to Yuna's FS in Vancouver.
I'll bet that it was one of the two judges in question:
Judge whose husband is the head of the Russian Federation or the Ukraine judge once suspended for fixing the Nagano Olympics.
Those are truly unconscionable scores.
Honestly, it's like this person thought they were seeing God on ice.
Yeah, I really want to hear the answer too. Some people here keep talking about tech difficulty in LP, but Yuna's SP has the most difficult jump layout compared to Sot, yet she could not earn high GOEs as usual. From SP, there should have been good 3+ points difference between Yuna and Sot if they were judged accurately.
Why do we even have PCS if someone like Sot can be judged on par as superior artist as Yuna or Caro K? Some people are talking about Sara Hughes, but even with visible error, Kwan got better artistic score under 6.0. The difference was at least there, NOTHING, NOTHING like less-than-point difference in PCS which happened last night.
Sot's PCS is simply a joke, and it will be still remembered as funniest score ever in FS in 10 years, if FS can survive until then.
Tara Lipinski on NBC: "Yuna didn't have the guts out there."
One of the most despicable comments I've ever seen. The Russians were booing her, the judging was rigged, she had to be perfect to win, and she was. But apparently she was "gutless".
I am disgraced that Tara Lipinski is an American.
One of the most despicable comments I've ever seen. The Russians were booing her, the judging was rigged, she had to be perfect to win, and she was. But apparently she was "gutless".
I am disgraced that Tara Lipinski is an American.
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I guess the judge from Ukaraine has no choice but to obey Putin in oder to save his country?
http://hotair.com/archives/2014/02/20/quotes-of-the-day-1651/
Yeah, I'm sure if Yuna broke her choreo to wave and smile at the Russian audience, she would've been gutsy and would've totally deserved to win.
I just can't with people trying to find flaws in Yuna's programs to justify Adelina's scores. If they really believe the scores were justified and could withstand scrutiny, they wouldn't have to explain so so so much why exactly Yuna deserved to be beat by Adelina. It should not require an explanation.
We get it. You want to tell us Adelina was good enough to get gold with a flawed performance, but Yuna laying down a clean skate after all that wasn't gutsy enough to win gold.
Because she didn't do way more technically then she did here. She broke 200 points at Europeans-Not in Russia. Without a 3/3Sotnikova got 173.30 in December 2013
and got 224.59 in the Olympics.
50 points skyrocketted in 2 months.
Gross homecooking indeed.
...and she magically improved 24.59 pts since the Europeans, which was about a month ago.
Sotnikova's did more technically here than she did in Europeans. Her PCS scores didn't improve that much more. If she got the same PCS scores at Euros that she got here, guess what-she still wins.
The attention was all on Yulia-because Yulia won. But Adelina put on some very good skates at Europeans. She just messed up her combination and lost some technical points. She got higher PCS than Yulia in the free.
Sotnikova's PCS was inflated as much as certain other skaters' PCS were deflated in Sochi.
Let's compare the scorecards of Kim, Kostner, and Sotnikova ACROSS both SP and LP.
You are only taking into account the FS. Add both the Short and Free and it more than makes up the difference.
So you don't think Sotnikova was going to get no PCS boast at the Olympics. Especially with a better skate, and some higher levels.
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