Technical Panel Disclosed
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What? The messageboards or the Olympics?
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That downgrade was ridiculous. If they try the same crap at the Olympics, I won't begrudge the fans for going crazy on the panel.
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She voted for the Canadians Sale and Pelletiere over Berezhnaya and Sikharudlisze in 2002, so she will probably favor Patrick Chan over Evgeni Plushenko this time around.
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If claiming you're a huge fan of hers validates your technical call, then let me say I'm not a huge Kim fan, and that 3/3 was not under-rotated.
Not really. I just prefaced it with that to guard myself from any Mao-bot accusations.
So do believe it was justified or not? I don't think it really matters if it is or not on that night, because since it's that judge again, if she downgrades her 3-3, there will be complaining.
Yes, I believe it was justified. But, you're right. If she's downgraded, there'll be a huge uproar. But the new rules that prevent the judges from seeing the techs' downgrade should keep the scores from changing too much (unless it's a blatant downgrade). I guess that's the most important thing.
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I take it back. I just downloaded her SP and rewatched it. It does appear she landed forward on her 3toe, thus justifying the downgrade.
Well, it's up to Yu Na and all the other athletes to land their jumps, and the tech panel to call it correctly. Let's hope one follows the other.
Well, it's up to Yu Na and all the other athletes to land their jumps, and the tech panel to call it correctly. Let's hope one follows the other.
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If Kim was attempting a Quadruple Toeloop as the second jump of her 3-3 then, yes, it was underrotated.
I'm pretty sure she was just going for a Triple Toe, though. In which case it was excellent and one of the worst calls EVER by a tech specialist.
Her 2Axel-3Toe in the LP was actually underrotated (likely because of nerves after the way she was robbed in the SP).
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I say ACK! re ; Alpern , too but do you think that Marika H-B might be a bit of a tempering factor ?
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She voted for the Canadians Sale and Pelletiere over Berezhnaya and Sikharudlisze in 2002, so she will probably favor Patrick Chan over Evgeni Plushenko this time around.
Or maybe Plushy will send her a kiss while Tango and she will change her mind
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I didn't think it was underrotated, but when I refreshed my memory by rewatching the SP, and went through it frame by frame, it was clear she touched down with her skate while she was mostly forward, and clearly more than 90° short of full rotation. This is not how she normally lands the jump, and should she regain her form at the Olympics, I hope she is judged fairly.
But on the other hand, I do think the point penalty for downgrades is ridiculous, although this applies far more often to Yu Na's competitors. If it was up to me, there'd be no more downgrades until the point system is fixed in this regard.
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