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The Judging Controversy Thread

Wow. It really does get better and better.

:bang:

They really think they can get away with this, do they?
 
Wow. It really does get better and better.

:bang:

They really think they can get away with this, do they?

They ARE getting away with it. Notice that everyone's concentrating on technical superiority, technical superiority, technical superiority, and very few ppl in the media are addressing the PCS inflation.

Russia just pulled one on the entire world. Unbelievable.
 
Reading the "Russian Inflation" thread in Olympics sub-forum, and I'm struck by the following:
1. Plushenko won the Team FS and beat Chan in the SP based on PCS despite low TES
2. P/B faield to medal and were beat in pairs because of lower PCS despite higher TES
etc. etc

But then you get to Adelina and all of a sudden it's the higher TES that only matters.

(and of course, no mention about Adelina's PCS magically shooting up to match Yuna, nor Yuna's higher jump content in the SP).

But these idiots go on tv and say "only thing that maters are the 7 triples vs. 6 triples"

They are literally lying over and over again just to sweep cheating under the rug.
 
Reading the "Russian Inflation" thread in Olympics sub-forum, and I'm struck by the following:
1. Plushenko won the Team FS and beat Chan in the SP based on PCS despite low TES
2. P/B faield to medal and were beat in pairs because of lower PCS despite higher TES
etc. etc

But then you get to Adelina and all of a sudden it's the higher TES that only matters.

(and of course, no mention about Adelina's PCS magically shooting up to match Yuna, nor Yuna's higher jump content in the SP).

But these idiots go on tv and say "only thing that maters are the 7 triples vs. 6 triples"

They are literally lying over and over again just to sweep cheating under the rug.



I know! Yuna with triple loop couldn't still win the comp.
 
Reading the "Russian Inflation" thread in Olympics sub-forum, and I'm struck by the following:
1. Plushenko won the Team FS and beat Chan in the SP based on PCS despite low TES
2. P/B faield to medal and were beat in pairs because of lower PCS despite higher TES
etc. etc

But then you get to Adelina and all of a sudden it's the higher TES that only matters.

(and of course, no mention about Adelina's PCS magically shooting up to match Yuna, nor Yuna's higher jump content in the SP).

But these idiots go on tv and say "only thing that maters are the 7 triples vs. 6 triples"

They are literally lying over and over again just to sweep cheating under the rug.

Right. Like the number of triples actually matter. She and Caro put down the same 7 triples, and Caro was still 7 points behind Adelina, even when Caro was clean. Adelina's PCS was actually higher than Carolina when she had a visible mistake.

And I can't believe people are saying that Yuna should've added another 3L if she wanted to win. Like that would've helped matters. Look, even Mao frigging Asada laid out a historical 8 TRIPLES, completed with 3A. She got dinged on UR, but it was still a clean performance, probably a performance for the ages. She placed 7 points behind Adelina just in free skating alone.

And people are still okay with Adelina winning. Okay.
 
While Sotnikova's camp were eager to point out that she performed one more triple than Kim, hence the 5.76 point margin, that did not explain why the Russian was 7.34 points ahead of Kostner, who also performed seven clean triples.
 
And I had not thought to see a day there would be a skater who would beat Yuna on technical merits while she was active, heh. (maybe except when Mao delivers in both SP/FS)

Prior to this event, the discussion was "how big of a cushion Yuna Kim has" over the competitors, specifically Yulia. Some said she could survive a fall or two. Some disagreed. Oh how so wrong all these silly people were.. It turned out Yuna was not a variable at all. The question was whether either of the two Russian ladies could stay on their feet so that they can gift the gold with a plausible deniability. It did not matter how well Yuna skated. The suspense was elsewhere. Some people saw it after the SP, some did not until after the FS.

Imagine where Yuna might be, point-wise, after an imaginary fall. She might have been below Yulia like Mao for all I know. Hah.
 
While Sotnikova's camp were eager to point out that she performed one more triple than Kim, hence the 5.76 point margin, that did not explain why the Russian was 7.34 points ahead of Kostner, who also performed seven clean triples.

There was no 3/3 combo
 
Tarasova choreographs for Adelina. I highly doubt anyone in Russia would actually question this - they don't want to get in trouble either.
 
While Sotnikova's camp were eager to point out that she performed one more triple than Kim, hence the 5.76 point margin, that did not explain why the Russian was 7.34 points ahead of Kostner, who also performed seven clean triples.

:agree:

What about Mao and her 8 triples with 3A?
 
:agree:

What about Mao and her 8 triples with 3A?

May I emphasize by reminding everyone that the base value difference across both the short and long programs for Adelina and Yu-na was only 2.94. Adelina didn't win by difficulty. She won by all those ridiculous +3 GOE's.
 
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