Skating with emotion does not actually replace choreography.
Could some of you stop trying to find flaws in Yuna's program so that Adelina's win can be justified? Yuna did the best she could do - she skated to the music, had tight choreo, made no mistake, all of which made some, if not all, commentators to think she may have won it by the end of her long program, or at least the scores would have come quite close. Adelina made some mistakes but she was energetic or whatever she was and had skyrocketed in PCS to win.
That said, let me toss out one question out there. If Yuna Kim was skating for Russia, and was aiming for her second gold, and laid out two programs back to back like she did yesterday and today, do you think Adelina would have scored higher than Yuna in FS and their scores would've been tied in SP (even though in SP Yuna actually had a higher BV)?
I don't think people can confidentially say yes to that. Therefore, yeah, I'm not 100% sure she deserved to win, but she did, so that's that.
The point is Adelina won, and people crying foul is not going to change anything. Maybe under fair judging, or maybe anywhere else other than Russia, Adelina could still have won--or not -- but we will never know.
Could some of you stop trying to find flaws in Yuna's program so that Adelina's win can be justified? Yuna did the best she could do - she skated to the music, had tight choreo, made no mistake, all of which made some, if not all, commentators to think she may have won it by the end of her long program, or at least the scores would have come quite close. Adelina made some mistakes but she was energetic or whatever she was and had skyrocketed in PCS to win.
That said, let me toss out one question out there. If Yuna Kim was skating for Russia, and was aiming for her second gold, and laid out two programs back to back like she did yesterday and today, do you think Adelina would have scored higher than Yuna in FS and their scores would've been tied in SP (even though in SP Yuna actually had a higher BV)?
I don't think people can confidentially say yes to that. Therefore, yeah, I'm not 100% sure she deserved to win, but she did, so that's that.
The point is Adelina won, and people crying foul is not going to change anything. Maybe under fair judging, or maybe anywhere else other than Russia, Adelina could still have won--or not -- but we will never know.