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- Jan 17, 2014
Also not Maria's biggest fan but I watched her Euro's performances with an open mind and I thought she was completely robbed of the bronze medal. Her jumps are above average, performed with choreography in and out and with arms over her head and she barely gets a +1 GOE? At least she will be an Olympian but if this is an indication of how the Russian Fed feels about her, I don't think she'll ever make a World/Olympic team again. They might as well already give out the Olympic medals at this point since Carolina will end up on the podium regardless of how bad she skates. This judging is out of control and it takes a lot for me a fan of 30 years to feel this way.
Am someone who actually like the old school SS which CaroK has - think deep edges, gliding, quiet blades, ease of speed changes etc. Not for me those “tricks” from the Eteri school which really just tries to hide the basic blade work with difficult in betweens. To me that is good TR but not SS. Yet Euro2018 is also where it confirms that PCS judging is completely whacked. I was completely appalled how CaroK was artificially boosted in her messy LP PCS and I am talking here even as an admirer of her SS. Personally, I think Zhenya and Zagi were also massively overscored though. Love the skaters but hate the PCS judging. Seriously this needs to be fixed. PCS impact needs to be reduced and simplified to say programme performance and SS/TR and limit these to just 20%. Let the tech dominate since this is a sport. PCS is simply getting too much room for blatant reputation scoring.