I just believe in an old quote by Ghandhi. "You have to be the change you want to see in the world".
In all honesty does Korea even have enough judges or qualified people to accomplish such a feat? Should we all start taking notes on So Youn Parks step sequence for the inevitable thread. The sad thing is some people here don't seem to think she can win it without cheating or something. That is the most disappointing to me.
Blame that on the governance of this sport, who is clearly out of touch and don't seem to care. Arrogant, flippant, pompous probably not so different from the attitude of its leader. Just look at its own policy, rules, press regarding the controversy.
- ISU can not be challenged.
- Judges don't make mistakes, all decisions are final.
(Or rather they do, but it is ISU's prerogative to take in maximum advantage of human vulnerabilities to 'steer' results towards certain outcome, unless someone came and rock the boat by putting up ridiculous high standards that is beyond any slants.)
- The federation's interest must over ride the individuals and the judges can do whatever they want under anonymity. This is sad, because I think majority of the judges do try to be fair, but failing to address controversies head on and its leader attempt to distract main issues with ridiculous new changes just makes it look more guilty than ever.
The fact there doesn't appear to be a re-calibration/correction process between different competitions, different flights, checking, real care with rewarding PCS marks properly continues to irks me. Early flight? Too bad, now we have an excuse not to reward you properly. Or we can justify why we give you lower mark while we inflate certain individuals on the final flight of skaters etc, enough to distort the rankings.
Power federation skaters continues to get maximum benefit/inflation from as many home/friendly events as possible. Rich get richer. Poorer have no say and you better shuddap or face consequences... with speed skating too.
Skaters continues to have no say, no rights in this 'individual' sport. Their privilege belong entirely with the federations. If you are out favour with them, you better do someone special enough to over ride your disadvantages. (I am thinking of Mirai, Daisuke, Akiko etc)
shiroKJ , I suggest you do a bit more research into the 'art' of 'taking the piss' :sarcasm: I am actually laughing at the absurdity of the decision and possible outcome.
I'd like figure skating to be a sport where people can 'believe' and 'trust' the judging, and the judges reward performances entirely on its own merits correctly (with humility that sometimes they can get it wrong, and if they did, they are unafraid to acknowledge it and correct themselves). To award things on quality. Not where the skater is from or whether it benefit ISU and its federations more. A sport's survival rest entirely on public trust, otherwise it will continue to be a niche sport that is merely formality of who has the richest daddy, and are they their fav?
The same applies to those fans who go on for 100+ posts about fairness, justices and "saving FS" but then turn their heads and say Korea should have the chance to do what Russia (supposedly) did. Obviously all that talking was just a cover, cause all they really wanted was the gold for their "queen".
Did I say that Yuna fans were shocked? My comment was simply pointing out the contradictive actions of both the KSU and fans. Its pretty obvious to everyone that KSU doesn't give two cents about appealing the results and did it just to relieve some backlash.
In this cause, the forest is FS as a whole. This goes perfectly with those 100 page comments about how we need to save figure skating--justice and fairness for everyone. (But of course, everyone translates to just Kim Yuna cause if Yuna doesn't get fairness no other skater from any other country should.) People insisting that Yuna was robbed!!! But flips a page and say, lets rob someone else in retribution to be fair. 
