japanice, Thanks for the article!
I hope Japan will take Gaillhueget up on it, and will have Worlds next year!
Hmmm. I wonder what his motive is. From what I've read about him, he has to have one, and I'm sure it is something that will benefit him.
Hmmm. I wonder what his motive is. From what I've read about him, he has to have one, and I'm sure it is something that will benefit him.
He wants to guilt Canada into giving 2013 to him. "But we were noble enough to give 2012 to Japan, so you should return the favour by giving 2013 to us.."
Maybe not.. but possibly.
Is this the same Didier Gailhaguet that was suspended for the 2002 judging scandal? I would love to believe he has turned over a new leaf, but my cynical side is kind of thinking that he is doing this as a way to "rehabilitate" himself in time for the election of the new ISU president.
Wow, that was a really complicated story... I'm not sure I followed it all!
Why Johnny felt he had to weigh in on this is beyond my comprehension, especially since it was right before the Olys and Inman would be judging him. Plushenko and Joubert can take care of themselves! He then paid the price.
I remember well the brouhaha last year re Judge Inman's email. The whole thing was so ridiculous that I didn't bother to find out it was Didier behind it. Inman was raising the issue of scoring the PCS properly and independently from TES, qouting Plushenko's own words that both Joubert and himself didn't have any transition because they were focusing on their jumps. (I think Plushenko was complaining about Joubert scoring higher PCS than he at the Euro, which Plushenko won. At that time his program was really empty and his spins extremely slow though he improved on both by the Olympics.) Somehow it got spun into a political plot to promote North American Men. I never saw the logic in all those accusations.
PCS have been more appropriately scored since but Joubert still seems to get high scores on some non-existent components though he has also tried to add non jump contents to his programs.
Yes, Gailhaguet politiks and can get pretty shady at times, and I imagine while he does feel for the Japanese people, he also has other considerations. But what does that have to do with the Inman matter? DG does not control the French media. It was Inman who decided to send the Plushenko e-mail, without even having the context for those remarks (which has never been clarified), not the French media. I don't think Inman is corrupt or should have been suspended for life as Johnny suggested, but it was inappropriate. If he wants to make an example of someone, he should bring up retired skaters, not active ones. Imagine if a Russian judge had sent out a similar e-mail right before Olys regarding Lysacek's faulty triple axel technique, or suggested that Chan is overmarked on IN - Carroll and the USFSA/Nichol and Skate Canada would have been screaming about it, the media would have had a field day, and justifiably so. Not to mention, bringing Joubert into it when it wasn't his statement was beyond the pale.I'm actually a bit tired of this topic. But since you've mentioned it again, I have to say something.
I don't care whether Didier or anyone was behind it or not. Sending e-mail to every judge talking about one of the skaters' faulty point priory to the competition where the said skater was going to compete, no matter how you slice it, no matter from which angle you see it, was an extreem move. As if those specially trained international judges and Mr.Inman himself had never realized, at least had never fully realized the obvious fact, and had always been judging it wrong in previous competitions untill Plushenko honestly pointed it out - out of his own mysterious reasons.
The timing and the method of this move was obviously undermining the top European skaters and helping North American men. Whether it helped to shape the result or not is another matter.