Are Lakernik and Alla
FAMILY of Adelina?
As many have pointed out, the head of the KSU was a judge at Vancouver where Yuna won OGM, yet nobody raised a stink about conflict of interest then?
The case of the KSU and Yuna's fans can be summarized as follows:
1) Yuna didn't win Olympic Gold, so there MUST be corruption and fraud
2) Since there MUST be fraud so WHO are the ones most likely to have committed them?
3) They MUST be the Russians or ex Soviet nationals.
4) A Russian judge hugged Adelina, so she MUST have committed fraud.
5) Tech Controller is Russian, so therefore MUST have committed fraud.
6) Those who gave POSITIVE GOEs to Adelina MUST have committed fraud.
7) Those who DIDN'T award Yuna Level 4s and POSITIVE GOEs MUST have committed fraud.
Therefore the Sochi results are FRAUDULENT.
Yuna didn't win = Corruption.
Note to this date, there's no concrete evidence of fraud, just staunch and emotional opinions.
If the rules are examined, Adelina receiving -0.9 for her stumble in her combination jump is correct, as it was an over rotated jump and the other jumps in the combination were fine. So she was penalized for that last small jump and -0.9 is correct UNDER THE RULES.
Yet Yuna's fans' logic is : There was a stumble, Adelina's performance wasn't perfect, so Yuna should win because she skated more perfectly and there wasn't an obvious flaw in her performance!
Again, as many of us pointed out, Adelina gamed the CoP better than Yuna, she did win fair and square. This has nothing to do with whom is the better skater, etc., it was a sports competition, with specific rules, whom ever played by the rules on that evening to score higher, won.
If Mao hadn't fallen during SP, she would have gamed Sochi and won over Yuna. Yuna didn't bring her A game to Sochi, and with one of the lowest BV among the top tier, left the door opened for Mao, as well as Adelina, Julia and Caro, IF they were to skate relatively clean. I can understand her strategy - her opponents have shown very little consistency in the lead up to Sochi. At GPs, Nationals, Euro, etc., Mao, Adelina and Caro all couldn't skate clean, Mao even lost to Akiko in Japan, and Julia, though more consistent than the others, still looks like a mere slip of a girl. Playing slow and steady could win over more ambitious programs which were highly likely to result in a splatfest, like the Men's. Mao indeed failed to deliver her SP, however, the other two, Caro and Adelina, surprisingly skated their cleanest, and became a threat because of their higher BV.
I guess there are too much "Yuna's fans" out there saying that the judging was unfair.
A high-ranking Olympic figure skating official, who spoke to USA TODAY sports on the condition of anonymity due to the sensitive nature of the topic, said the geographic makeup of the judging panel "was clearly slanted towards (Olympic gold medalist) Adelina Sotnikova," adding "this is what they can do." "How the hell were Yuna and Sotnikova so close in the components, I just don't get it?" exclaimed Canadian great Kurt Browning. four-time world champion "Yuna Kim outskated her, full stop,”
Browning said. “I'm shocked. What, suddenly, she just became a better skater overnight? I don't know what happened. I'm still trying to figure it out."
Dick Button, skating legend - Sotnikova has no dance ability no performance level but great sense of not wilting. Sotnikova was energetic, strong, commendable, but not a complete skater. Sotnikova: Great effect, ugly catch-foot, wild enthusiasm, truly competitive, fun to watch and certainly needs refinement. At one point, I had doubts regarding Yu-Na Kim - not after today. She was superb, elegant, charming. Never a wilt. Dear Yu-Na, you are a true champion.
When I criticize, I believe in recognizing changes. You were a different skater today. Congratulations! Yuna charming here subjective elements in the component scores ( the artistry) were outstanding ...... David Wilson was extraordinary choice to choreograph. He understood her weaknesses as well as her strengths. This was a change for her.
Katarina Witt, the former East German glamour queen of the ice, "I am stunned by this result, I don't understand the scoring," German TV from her commentators' booth at the Iceberg Skating Palace.
British Robin Cousins olympic gold medalist - BBC commentator I put my commentator hat down, and I was an Olympic skater and a performer watching, and Yuna Kim was as good as over and I went, ladies and gentlemen there you have it the gold medal. I bit my tongue a little bit, I thought you should never say that before it's actually there in black and white, and then seeing the replay and seeing the reaction I thought, oh okay, oh maybe I'm, maybe it was something I was feeling, but after the result was up, and I have to be honest I looked across at a couple of other, Kurt Browning, umm Katarina Witt I know was apparently in the studio, and I looked at the German commentator and he went, how did they do that how did that happen. And he said Katarina's over in the screaming in the studio that she thinks it's wrong. And Kurt said I just you know I thought, and they also did what I did, they called it before Yuna had finished, so, umm I thought they were both brilliant and it's very similar to the ice dance with the Canadians and the Americans, which camp are you in, but Yuna has such a supreme quality over every single move. Sotnika was though vivacious and it was aggressive and it was a one-off moment that happened in front of a home crowd.
Alex Goldberger, Olympics researcher at US broadcaster NBC said “Adelina Sotnikova was excellent tonight, but Yuna Kim was robbed”.
Three-time U.S. national champion
Michael Weiss - But, couldn't disagree more that Yuna &Sotnikova had basically same Component marks?..in Both short & long? Home field inflation "If Adelina was not from Russia, she would never get those marks," Dave Lease, of Skating Lesson, a blog focused on the intricacies and nuances of figure skating disciplines and competitions. "There's no way to justify Sotnikova's marks,"
Jamie Sale Canadian Gold Medal Winning Skater: -Ok I'm not a judge but I just watched the #womansfigureskating again + I STRONGLY disagree w results like MANY others. #ISU now what? -I would have had Yuna 1, Carolina 2 and Adelina 3 -nothing against ANY skaters, Adeline was gr8 but not at the level of Yuna or Carolina. CNN Interview - I guess we'll never really know until somebody does speak, and like they did in Salt Lake City, but it is very suspicious. We're all very frustrated this whole you know, every time there's a scandal there's Russians involved, but you've got two judges the on panel on this panel, one is a judge one suspended in 1998 for trying to fix the dance event. And the other is the wife of the Russian Federation President.
Brian Boitano - I don't think that Yuna Kim should have been as close to Sotnikova after the short program, and I think that is the gap that should not have been bridged so that Yuna Kim would have been a two-time Olympic Champion.
http://edition.cnn.com/video/data/2...ano-sochi-figure-skating-controversy.cnn.html
Naomi Nari Nam, the 1999 silver medalist at the U.S. national championships, watched the competition and came away with feelings similar to Lease's. She says that she felt like Kim, not Sotnikova, was her pick to win gold. "I definitely think it was home court advantage [for Sotnikova]," she told The Wire. "It was very inflated."
American skater
Ryan Bradley After the SP -You can not tell me that Ashley being in 5th makes any sense. There is a girl (LIPNITSKAYA Yulia) back there with ice burn on her face ahead of her After Carolina's FS -I feel like the panel just kind of took a crap on Carolina right there -Let's not forget the mandatory "Skating while not being Russian" deduction After Yuna's FS skate: -Any other country in the world and this isn't even close. -You have got to be Kidding me. I can't handle them justifying this -Are we just going to ignore that she (Adelina) botched the landing of her 3 jump and pretend she was perfect? -This post event wrap up is making my blood boil
American World Champion skater
Todd Eldredge - After Yuna's SP #YunaKim = Skating perfection! #Sochi2014 #Olympics
After the FS -Apparently panel felt Sotnikova had better skating skills than Kostner & almost same as Kim
#Sochi2014” Emphatically disagree!
My favorite thing is Sotnikova gets a 9.50 for choreography but Kostner gets a 9.21” Shame on judges!
Foolishness!
American World Champion Skater
Tai Babilonia After Adelina's FS score was announced -the fix is in :{ #sochi #joke After Yuna's FS score announced -this is why people laugh at it :{ #figureskating #mysport #corrupt
American skater
Douglas Razzano After Yulia's FS -AHEAD OF MAO?!?!? Here we go... #No #Sochi2014 After Carolina's FS -FORZA, Carolina!!!! Ahhhh! Stunning! #Sochi2014 Before Adelina's FS -@RyanSBradley FOR SURE. Lakernik is calling! Can't forget that! After Yuna's FS -@SkatingLesson I'm angry. -@SkatingLesson @Adaripp If the Russian girls don't get called for flutzes, Mirai should never be called on an under-rotation call EVER.
Bill Plaschke (American Sports Journalist) -Sochi Olympics: Yuna Kim's flawless performance cuts no ice in a Russian arena -Russians needed a champion after last night's hockey debacle, they got one..at expense of Korea...How can leader skate perfect and lose?. -Kim didn't win...unbelievable...scandal written all over this...Russian Sotnikova wins, fans going crazy, Kim disappears, wrong, wrong, -Queen Yuna Kim was unbelievable.nearly perfect. better than Sotnikova...if she is not Olympic champion in about 5 minutes, a huge scandal
ESPN Official Website News Article titled "Home Cooking", "Home-Ice Advantage"
El Mundo - "Sotnikova da a Rusia el oro más polémico" Los medios extranjeros buscan una explicación 'racional' a la nota de Adelina
http://www.elmundo.es/deportes/2014/02/20/5306824422601dc45e8b4582.html
Jesse Helms - That's why the ISU judges began to award a pile of GOE on the young skaters' poor quality jump in the Grand Prix as long as they managed to land them. You don't have to be an expert. Adelina Sotnikova or Julia Lipnitskaia for that matter didn't change much or only improve mildly from their junior performances. In the 2013 Worlds Adelina Sotnikova's perfect short program which is an almost exact replica of hers in Sochi earned barely 60. Now nearly 75? Are you kidding? If judged correctly, Sotnikova should have scored 65 or less in short and 135 in free, which gives her less than 200
LA Times reporter John Cherwa's interview of Chicago Tribune reporter Phillip Hersh - My biggest problem with this whole controversy today is that the federation that governs this sport, the International Skating Union provides nobody with any explanations for anything. For instance, why did they allow conflicts of interests like having the wife of a Russian Federation official on the panel. Why did they let an ex-cheater be on the panel. Why did the levels that Yuna Kim receive for a couple of her elements which were lower, why were those deductions made. I mean, they expect us to swallow these results whole, yet we're in the 21st century, and they're operating as if they were in the Middle Ages when they would disseminate information which would wander around the earth and get back to us in a month. The biggest problem I have with all of this is the intractability and intransigence and obfuscation provided by the International Federation, which is I say might have good reasons for why the scores were what they were, but by not telling us they're only fueling this feeling that it's all fixed
American reporter for USAToday
Christine Brennan - Many in skating questioning gold medalist, other placements -- and ridiculously high marks for Russians throughout the Olympics
"That's not fair to see Carolina and Yuna, who have great skating skills and had great skating tonight -- good jumps, nice presence on the ice, maturity, expression -- could be six points behind somebody who has tremendous skill but is just coming out of juniors," said
Gwendal Peizerat, the 2002 ice dancing gold medalist from France, "Compared to Carolina, compared to Yuna, something has happened."
Paul Wylie, the 1992 Olympic silver medalist -
I asked Wylie how he would explain Sotnikova’s sudden improvement to the casual fan. He paused, and couldn’t come up with an answer.
“It’s figure skating at its finest, right?” he said.
Everyone around him laughed.
Sky Italia's reaction http://vimeo.com/89457478
), Shekhovtseva Alla(wife of russian federation general director) , Replay Operator: Alexander Kuznetsov(russian)
You said that you don't agree with the final result, which also can be interpreted as you don't agree with those judges' decision. 
, Yuna fans will be whining rivers 
, all of use will have to deal with their multi-pages multi-threads nonsence 
occasionally finding it amusing 
