You are happily blaming a skater whose alleged actions have zero bearing on people on the internet making the choice to be hateful and prejudiced against people because of where they're from.
Except that actions don't have to have a direct effect on anyone for them to be wrong and worth calling out. If you scale up that logic for everything, someone covering up SA (like Kevin Aymoz's coaches) isn't deserving of public discourse and shame because they didn't cover up
my SA. People who have been racist should just not suffer any consequences because they were only racist towards a very small number of people. When people have been unkind to my friends and family, I guess I should also just ignore it, because they've always been kind to me, no?
On top of that, in a sport, where a single bad fall can permanently disable a person, the absolute lack of care Luka showed towards Karina in their last season is
absolutely worth calling out. In a sport where disordered eating is as commonplace as in figure skating, his words about Karina's weight are also
absolutely worth calling out.
And just to spell it out, because you apparently did not understand what I wrote, I said that a lot of Georgian skaters were disliked because of reasons
completely separate from their birth country. You are so convinced that every Russian-born person is disliked because they are Russian-born, that you won't even consider other reasons for why some people are disliked, you just keep on coming back to "Well, it must be because they were born in Russia". The truth is, there are many well-liked Russian-born skaters, representing a variety of countries (including Russia), from Nikita Starostin over Ekaterina Kurakova and Artem Markelov to Aliona Kostornaia, how does that work with your theory?
Oh and children like Inga Gurgenidze and Polina Dzsumanyijazova have received a shocking amount of hostility. You might choose to turn a blind eye but that doesn't mean it's not happening. How can you possibly blame Luka Berulava for the abuse these kids are receiving? He's not posting those comments.
I didn't blame Berulava for anything except his own treatment. I've also seen zero negative comments about Inga, or a whole truckload of other Russian-born skaters like Makar Suntsev, Vladimir Samoilov, Ekaterina Kurakova, yes, even Nikita Volodin, and many others.
Americans and Canadians competing for other countries don't get the same hostility.
That's arguable, Beverly Zhu got a lot of hostility from Chinese and non-Chinese fans alike when she was chosen over Hongyi Chen for the Olympics, especially when she didn't deliver. There are also certainly much fewer Americans and Canadians representing other countries at a semi-high level (Of course, there are some exceptions, but in sheer numbers, there's a big difference), few people care about "country-hopping" when they've never even heard of the skaters/teams who "hopped" from one country to the other. After all, it's hard to care about something you don't even know about.
Hell, a german and brit competing for Spain get praise for doing so. If a Russian competes for another country they're accused of taking funding from others and complaints that countries aren't prioritising native skaters. But you didn't see that during the collective tantrum after Spanish Nationals. All of a sudden, many of the same users were saying it would be totally wrong for the federation to prioritise a native skater. That's pretty contradictory if you ask me.
Funding, championship assignments and prioritisation are different things. Nobody is getting mad at for example Hase/Volodin or Pavlova/Sviatchenko for getting assigned to Euros and Worlds, they are the best (or in P/S case only) pairs in their country.
People are getting mad at countries with very limited funding (as for example Germany) choosing to "import" & financially support the third foreign pairs partner in the span of 4 years (2019 to 2023, Elena Pavlova & Alisa Efimova for Ruben Blommaert and now Nikita Volodin for Minerva), when skaters on the National team are skating on only pain killers because they can't get physical therapy where they train and the training conditions in some of the federal training bases are very suboptimal to the point where even coaches are speaking out about it.
People are also getting mad at countries for prioritising foreign-born talents over their own, when they show similar potential at that moment in time. As you already brought up Polina Dzsumanyijazova, people weren't unhappy with her, they were unhappy with the federation apparently neglecting Hungarian-born skaters to the point where people were leaving the sport or the country (all while covering up abuse allegations against Hungarian coaches, which did not help the situation).
Oh and regarding Kazkova and Revia- they seemed to gain an awful lot more very devoted fans very suddenly when Davis and Smolkin switched to Georgia. All just an excuse to hate Diana Davis, make her into some sort of villain, like she's some sort of proxy for her mother. That's the polar opposite of holding someone responsible for their own actions, surely?
K/R have been quite popular since before D/S were even thinking about switching to Georgia, people absolutely loved their Linkin Park FD (2019-20).
And funnily enough, the biggest influx of haters for D/S are actually not international fans, as you surely must know. It's Russian fans, and even Russian coaches, commentators and federation officials who are calling them traitors and suddenly say that they aren't very good Ice Dancers, when they loved them before, so what's the truth there?
While Diana certainly is disliked for her connection to her mother, she and her husband are mostly disliked for the scores they get - Something she is certainly not alone with, just ask Chock/Bates or Fear/Gibson who definitely get to hear a lot of the same criticisms.
And can you really fault anyone for feeling like there is foul play going on here when a lift where the lifting partner is visibly heavily shaking gets higher GOE than similar lifts of higher quality? When D/S are released to compete for Georgia without any problems, while other skaters like Dario Cirisano get told they won't be released without a fight? Sure, Diana is not at fault herself for receiving unfair treatment, but it is impossible to call out double standards without somehow having to involve people who profit from it.
There are people on this very forum who do the same in favour of the "Russians" (if rightfully or not is not for me to decide), but you seem to have no problem with that.
(And yes, they too are also Russians. So it's not that either.)
I think it's really cleverly choreographed (although I think the junior version is slightly better than the senior length version).
Inga Gurgenidze - girls
Konstantin Supatashvili - boys
