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No it wasn't. Look at where she takes off, the angle of the blade. A lutz jump (one that takes off from a proper outside edge) curves the opposite direction of the rotation. She also doesn't pre-rotate on her toepick hardly at all, so she's already inherently in the air longer.
I did. It was UR.
Just stop.
EDIT: Ignoring you, BTW. I don't have time for you today. Off to practice, though. Have fun!
The moment before the jump goes up into the air: http://i58.tinypic.com/206outy.png
There is some pivot there. Some skaters pivot more, some less. On Lutzes typically the pivot is less than on a flip for the reasons you give - the Take-Off is naturally blocked because of the outside edge entrance. But the skating foot is not the last thing to leave the ice (You know this, I'm sure), the toe pick is. And on all jumps there is usually some pivot on the take-off (sometimes as much as half a rotation). The angle of her blade is literally ignorable in this case.
That does not matter. The jump landing was over 45 degrees short of backwards, and it should have been dinged just like any other UR jump *should* have been dinged.
Point is all the top skaters there (the ones on the podium) got some freebies from the judges.
For the record, while Yuna does jump high she almost never lands straight back the way the Russian skaters tend to on a lot of their jumps. There's almost always some degree of hook at the end of her jumps, she just tends to NOT UR them. In this case, she did, but she got away with it.
And I don't see anyone crying about it, but rather going out of their way to claim otherwise...