I have a big issue with calling Osmond's toeloop here "good" - it was barely rotated and she did not have good flow out, there was a visible grind on the landing and she had to quickly put her free foot down to stabilize. The same was true in the SP as well; I can not see her combos deserving more than +1 GOE and these frivolous +GOE grades given out to people are what distorts the scores.
You don't though...the GOE and PCS you just gave to Osmond would add up to 141.12!! That's 6 points lower than this total score you somehow came up with and 9 points lower than what she actually got from the judges.
Osmond did not have a strong short program either, that's not much of an argument. And where is your argument for Kaetlyn being "a better performer, period", where are the specifics? I found Higuchi to be the better performer in the LP, having a better sense of abandon in her movement, and being more in character and showing a better range of movement. Her twizzles are way better than Osmond's, for example.
You don't seem to understand what is being talked about, as what you quoted was a statement of why Nationalistic attitudes are ridiculous.
Aside from that, Osmond being the first Canadian lady in 45 years to be given a title is NOT any argument whatsoever that there wasn't politics and inflated scoring happening. How do you not see the fallacy of your argument? Those are unrelated things and Canada has simply lacked competitive ladies. No amount of politics for any of their other ladies in the past several decades was ever going to get them a World title, since none of them ever delivered enough to actually politic. Winning a World title is hardly the only extent of political influence anyway, there are other beneficial results a federation can achieve. For example, Osmond undeservedly "won" 2012 Skate Canada and her scores have constantly been creeping upwards, even when she has given rather weak performances.
This is not what was being argued. The issue is how ANY skater who is considered a "chosen one" receives inflated scores for what they actually put out there on the ice. Higuchi does not have the same clout as Osmond and has not been "chosen" to be a champion who the judges "need" to reward; as such her scores are not inflated as much and the scoring differential is inaccurate. Forget country, that doesn't matter. The issue is simply the judges giving certain scores out based upon reputation/momentum or whatever you want to call it.
Alyona Kostornaya 3A
two weeks after the JWC 2018 in Sofia
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). Was very sorry to see Daleman and Kostner to falter as bad as they did. Gabrielle's first 3+3 combo is enourmous!!
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