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The Judging Controversy Thread

IDK What NBC broadcast you guys are listening to....

The NBC shown on my TV didn't have Tara and Johnny as commentators..........

Per the NYTimes, NBC seems like trying some teams to compete for the spots in the 2018 Olympics including Tara, Johnny, Sandra and Scott. One of the standards is "quick" analysis. It risks "shallow" analysis all the time...
 
Adelina has been getting, on average, the 4th or 5th best PCS in the world for 2 years now. It isn't like Zijun came out here and got higher PCS than Yuna.
If Adelina had the second best PCS of the night, then what was Carolina Kostner even doing at the Olympics? She has made a whole second wind in her career out of the PCS score because she is so fluid in her movements.
 
If Adelina had the second best PCS of the night, then what was Carolina Kostner even doing at the Olympics? She has made a whole second wind in her career out of the PCS score because she is so fluid in her movements.

Her program was gutted in between Euros and the Olympics, which is why she had much more energy to do her jumps well at the end of her Olympic LP.
 
So when you said 1st you really meant 2nd.

I didn't say it. You should read the username more carefully.

But yes, I repeat my response as well. That was very kind of them to give her a meaningless 0.09 edge on PCS. Wouldn't want to draw too much suspicion with Adelina getting the highest components score. Wouldn't want her to lose too many points, either.
 
The question is, should Adelina's long program be the 2nd highest score ever? Even better than Yuna's Les miserables? Hmmm if you agree that it should be then there is no point in arguing.
 
I didn't say it. You should read the username more carefully.

But yes, I repeat my response as well. That was very kind of them to give her a meaningless 0.09 edge on PCS. Wouldn't want to draw too much suspicion with Adelina getting the highest components score. Wouldn't want her to lose too many points, either.

If you think 9 judges can get together and score 5 different components and plan to have one skater finish less than a tenth ahead of the other on PCS then I can see how you are so easily convinced that there was a conspiracy.
 
How can you use this as a reason to dismiss the opinions of the NBC analysts when broadcasters all over the world have exclusive deals to broadcast the Games in their country?

Good point. You are right in that it is my belief that their hands are tied as far as what they can say. It is also my belief that they don't give a rat's *** how fairly the scores come out.
 
The technical specialist (i.e., the caller) is French -- Vanessa Gusmeroli.

The technical controller, Alexander Lakernik, is Russian.

And the 3rd woman is someone named "Olga," Finnish national who was never been on a tech panel until 2012~2013 season. She's apparently there to follow the lead of "Alexander."
 
If you think 9 judges can get together and score 5 different components and plan to have one skater finish less than a tenth ahead of the other on PCS then I can see how you are so easily convinced that there was a conspiracy.

i think you are using the argument that it was not a conspiracy, which is a valid argument, to invalidate that the scoring was unfair/was correct. I presented a question to you before - either you believe the judging was correct, or that there was a lean to Adelina. Not just Adelina, but Yulia as well. What is your position on it?
 
Overall this will be much less controversial than 2002 unless bad behavior from the judges is uncovered. Unpopular decisions always happen.

You seem very out of touch with reality. This is not an unpopular decision. The close battle between Yuna and Carolina would have had people debating for years, with no accusations of scandal. Had Yuna or clean Mao had a close finish, again up for debate between their fans but no accusations of scandal. But Adelina's score simply does not stand up to scrutiny, and people as a whole do not accept the results.

It's not an issue of subjective judging and wishing the judges cared more about this instead of that...it's a matter of the public and skating world not accepting the legitimacy of the competition.
 
I disagree. 2018 will be in Korea, and it seems people still bring up past controversies.

With this tone-deafness from the ISU as well as a few forum members who will advocate anything and anyone that is Russian, I now hope the S. Korea will not forget this robbery come 2018.
 
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