Well... that is an interesting little fairy tale, but in reality we have no evidence to support the claim that the ISU will gang up on anybody out of spite. My own feeling (I live La Vie en Rose ), is that the ISU does not comprise a race of evil ogres. They got caught up in a huge mess not of their creation, and are coping as best they can.
There is evidence. In December the isu said rejected Russians could appeal and now they are saying they have no right to appeal. Why don’t they have the right to appeal all of a sudden? The isu said article 26 guaranteed them that right! So what happened here?
My (inexpert) understanding was that article 26 referred to the right to appeal a decision of the ISU Council to the CAS. I think that skaters and federations automatically have that right anyway, whatever the ISU says about it.
The ISU officials have already been busted just a month or so ago fixing results, and the judging was especially egregious and brazen at World's. The ISU cannot afford yet another judging scandal at the Olympics. Adelia is going to have the sympathy of many people around the world this is not like massaging the scores of a small fed skater so they miss out on a top 10 and quotas (no-one really notices), this will be manipulating the actual overall result of the tournament. It will be the scandal to end all scandals in figure skating.
The IOC need to step in now since the ISU are not fulfilling their obligations now as custodians of the sport.
I can't read Russian, so the video I watched must have been the Russian GPF.I was going by this:
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which shows the first element as a triple Axel with positive GOE and worth 10.48 points total. I think she did miss the 3A at the Russian Grand Prix Final, though, so nothing is guaranteed.
The IOC has slowly but surely backed away from its 2022 stance regarding sanctions against Russia. This goes for all sports under their umbrella. I get the feeling that the IOC went along with sanctions in the first place only because of outside political pressures (for instance from the European Union).
With only 2 figure skaters it’s a reach saying they are allowed to compete. They really aren’t.
It doesn't even have to be this drastic, just enough to push her one spot under qualification. Her PCSs will be around 6 as well, which is what unknown athletes usually get. It doesn't even take all the judges, only 3 to make sure she (or Gumennik) doesn't qualify (one low score is struck out, but the other two are enough to lower the remaining average). That's if they don't mess up. If the mess up, Kolyada's nightmares after Oly team performance will be wet dreams in comparison.
The judges at Russian nationals hit Gumenik with 3 qs and a <! You know he isn’t qualifying. Not really worth discussing. I still believe any ultra c Petrosian does will be <<
I feel so out of the loop. Everyone on this board except me can see the future with great clarity. Me, I don't know what will happen.
You can just look and extrapolate from 2021 and all previous Nebelhorns. And also skating first in any comp.
They will. A low effort free skate to Donna Summer is getting 9.5 now for PCS, so the scoring is completely manipulated. I'm sure they'll have Petrosian around 65-66 for PCS rather than 74. However, she's 20 points better than any of the recent world champions in the free skate for base value. There is only so much manipulation they can do. If Petrosian is clean with the same content as the last season, then all the lowballing in the world won't help the ISU.
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