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- Jul 11, 2003
Can anyone give the judges' names and nationalities of that event? This is not a put down of Irina who, imo happens to be the top Lady skater at the moment. Even the best have their off-days. I would just like to see if there is a connection in that particular scoring.euterpe said:nymkfan51, I agree that there is almost certain to be controversy at Torino.
Think of Irina's Euro win this past season. She had a terrific SP, but her FS was a complete mess, and she not only won the gold medal (reasonable, because her SP was much better than the other skaters) but also the FS. If something like that happens at Torino and a skater wins with a disastrous FS, what happened at SLC will look like a Sunday School picnic.
There was no secrecy in SLC because names and nationalities of judges were known, and so the scandal became obvious. The IOC was furious. Speedy went into high gear and set the stage for punishing only one Federation in the collusion. In order to protect the other Federation in the collusion, he got the IOC to award two sets of gold medals . He then went on to establish the 'secrecy' method of protecting future collusions. And the competitors be damned. It' sad.
Joe