Soaked with controversy - not exactly illegal but definitely cheating:
Sochi 2014: Russia Winter Olympics 'gas' claims investigated
http://www.bbc.com/sport/0/winter-olympics/26369004
i hope adelina's not among the athletes involved
Soaked with controversy - not exactly illegal but definitely cheating:
Sochi 2014: Russia Winter Olympics 'gas' claims investigated
http://www.bbc.com/sport/0/winter-olympics/26369004
NBC's post-event commentary is a great example how individuals can/will behave hypocritically when their interest, no matter how petty, is at stake. It's almost like a mirror image of the judging panel at Sochi. Think about how easy judges can be manipulated if individuals are that easy to be deluded or coerced.
Johnny: "Yuna played safe." - WTH? What does that even mean? Did Yuna skip an element that was planned? Did he not know her program beforehand? Did Johnny ever said that Yuna would not win if she had not changed her routine before the whole scandal broke out? Or does Johnny really think it is necessary to blow kisses, to wave hands on the spot, to fist-pump after landing a jump, or to smile like an idiot with a half-open mouth throughout a program in order to win?
The scary music in this video turns it into propaganda.
Has it been posted yet? Christina Gao wrote an opinion piece for the Havard Crimson about figure skating judging http://www.thecrimson.com/article/2014/2/26/on-thin-ice/
Has it been posted yet? Christina Gao wrote an opinion piece for the Havard Crimson about figure skating judging http://www.thecrimson.com/article/2014/2/26/on-thin-ice/
Has it been posted yet? Christina Gao wrote an opinion piece for the Havard Crimson about figure skating judging http://www.thecrimson.com/article/2014/2/26/on-thin-ice/
The judging controversy not involved the ladies. According to Finn Petri Kokko, the guy that invented the Finn Step in Dance stated that the Americans W/D timing was off in the Finn Step. He figured that V/M should have been ahead of them . He didn't understand why the judges put D/W ahead of V/M. Go figure.
Apparently Kokko did not notice that V&M dropped a Level on the first part of the Finnstep.
This is an interesting statement: "Yuna is definitely one of the best skaters in the world. But she took time off after winning the 2010 Olympics, and only returned to competition in 2013. She is in fact technically weaker than she was four years ago. Adelina and Carolina, on the other hand, both improved dramatically over the course of the past few years. So while I don’t think the final results were fair, I’d hesitate to confirm that Yuna definitely should have come out on top."
Apparently this lady doesn't know a thing about figure skating except the calendar and isn't interested either
"This lady" (if you are referring to the author of the quote) is Christina Gao. I think she must know a couple of things about figure skating.
Apparently Kokko did not notice that V&M dropped a Level on the first part of the Finnstep.
Not only she is the elite skater, she was with Brian Orser for a couple of years too.Apparently I only judged from what I read
Then I googled her and realized she actually skates somewhere in America
If the person who invented the Finnstep doesn't understand how it was scored, there's something wrong with the judging.
French newspaper again
I can totally see how this article might come across as one written by someone who does not feel confident or qualified to discuss figure skating. this is a modest attemt at articulating an opinion by a college freshman for a campus paper, and you sense how anxious she was about being fair in her assessment and not making any faux pas by overemphasizing the fact that she is otherwise an elite skater and by resorting to skating jargons. Ironically enough, the end result is that, though she avoided the abstruse terminology of judging criteria, the article seems to repeat the sound bites from the media, sounding overall too diffident, too cautious.Apparently I only judged from what I read
Then I googled her and realized she actually skates somewhere in America
Well, then I would have appreciated to see arguments based on something other than the calendar and providing a deeper insight in what figure skating is about Theoretically, there should be some but what's the point if trying to be "understandable for general public" makes her oppinion no different than that of general public?
I rather wish I knew what Sasha Cohen could say about it given that she was obsessed with that component score thing in her day.
Now according to this IOC-published ladies short recap video (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qnXfkZln-Gk&feature=youtu.be), Yuna's hardest jump in her short was a tripe lutz-double toe loop combination, which of course makes it seem like all the other ladies (Gold, Kostner, Lipniskaia and Sotnikova) did harder tricks......Anyone else bothered by that?
Now according to this IOC-published ladies short recap video (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qnXfkZln-Gk&feature=youtu.be), Yuna's hardest jump in her short was a tripe lutz-double toe loop combination, which of course makes it seem like all the other ladies (Gold, Kostner, Lipniskaia and Sotnikova) did harder tricks......Anyone else bothered by that?