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This is from Wikipedia referring to similar gestures used by sports fans, and not including its ubiquitous use by music artists/fans
Hmm, you said, "Many football fans do it too.....", and I disagreed. I don't think that's a common sign seen in football. Specific to some college football teams with a mascot with horns, sure, but football in general? No. That list includes an awful lot of distinctly different variations.
This is all besides the point. At a skating competition, the audience is told not to distract the skater during the performance, not to use flash photography, etc. We don't know the motivation or the identity of the person who was rinkside making gestures, but he was right by the rink where Yuna was skating and he was making a gesture that would draw attention to himself. Completely inappropriate.
He most certainly was not cheering her on.
I don't think you can make an argument that well-behaved audiences, during a skating event, sit on their hands for the duration of the performance in complete silence. There is plenty of screaming, yelling, applause, waiving of things - BIG things - and gestures AND photography of all kinds going on, routinely, at every single skating competition - all of it arguably distracting to skaters. It's not an exceptional occurrence, it's completely routine.At a skating competition, the audience is told not to distract the skater during the performance, not to use flash photography, etc. We don't know the motivation or the identity of the person who was rinkside making gestures, but he was right by the rink where Yuna was skating and he was making a gesture that would draw attention to himself. Completely inappropriate.
He most certainly was not cheering her on.
I wasn't arguing that he was cheering for her. But you guys are making it sound as if it was a macabre plot to curse her or something. I've always respected your comments but that's just veering into insane territory. As for drawing attention to himself and thus not having respect for Yuna, maybe..
Coaches have been known to flamboyantly jump and scream when skaters land jumps in that very area
I don't think you can make an argument that well-behaved audiences, during a skating event, sit on their hands for the duration of the performance in complete silence.
There is plenty of screaming, yelling, applause, waiving of things - BIG things - and gestures AND photography of all kinds going on, routinely, at every single skating competition - all of it arguably distracting to skaters. It's not an exceptional occurrence, it's completely routine.
If you admit you don't know the motivation of that person, I don't believe you have any evidence to conclude he was NOT cheering her on. You're entitled to your opinion, but it's just that.
OMG...I really should have just stayed away from this thread.
This is descending into complete and utter ridiculousness...