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I don't really have a problem with her winning. clean, highest level of difficulty. I disagree personally but I don't think it's dishonest or anything.
The tech panel chief was Russian, the vice president of Russian skating federation, I believe.
SOCHI, Russia -- One of the nine judges who picked a young Russian skater over two more refined competitors for the Olympic gold medal Thursday night was suspended for a year for trying to fix an event at the 1998 Winter Olympics in Nagano.
And another is the wife of the president of the Russian figure skating federation.
Judges from the United States and South Korea, as well as two other Western judges, were not chosen by draw to work the women's long program after being on the women's short program panel the night before. Two of their replacements were Ukrainian Yuri Balkov, who was kicked out of judging for a year after being tape-recorded trying to fix the Nagano ice dancing competition by a Canadian judge, and Alla Shekhovtseva, a Russian judge who is married to the Russian federation's president. Other Eastern Europeans were on the panel as well.
I am looking at the SP and LP protocols and had Yuna received level 4 for her step sequences she would have won the gold. No idea how Adelina got level 4 (both in SP and LP, no one else did), and everybody but Yuna (Adelina, Mao, Carolina) got level 4 in LP. Yuna got level 3 in both SP and LP. The tech panel was absolutely determined.
Can't take this seriously.
That is your opinion. Personally I believe there was nothing that should have held Adelina down in PCS. I say this as a huge YuNa fan who did not care much about Adelina's skating. After all, PCS is not all about artistry.
I honestly thought Yuna had it!!!
So much for the Americans complaining about the Canadians (and the French) complaining.