LMAO. That "Jesse Helms" person is even less objective and credible than the Yu-Na fan that runs the Fever Skating website. At least the Fever Skating person actually looked at how the skaters skated at the Olympics.
On the other hand, The
"Scandal, Fraud, and Death of Figure Skating" article offers zero analysis of actual skating, only histrionic comments on some "premeditated device" and/or "devious plot" by the ISU, sprinkled with some rants about Putin and North Korea (????).
Look at what "Helms" (which I doubt is his real name as he does not write like a native English speaker) says in his article about Lipnitskaya:
It had been set up already long before the game began. Last year throughout the Grand Prix, Julia Lipnitskaia caused a storm winning every competition with her consistency but questionable qualities and super inflated scores.
As I indicated in the earlier articles, that presaged this storm.
This is not an anomaly in which those pro Russian judges and the mad Russian mob raped and butchered the sport in live TV. It was the ISU that conceived it all several months ago.
Firstly, Lipnitskaya's Cup of Russia win was controversial, but did anyone actually think her Skate Canada win was controversial or super-inflated? Not that I recall.
Secondly, she did not win every competition on the Grand Prix, Mao Asada beat her at the GPF.
Thirdly, using words like "pro Russian judges and the mad Russian mob raped and butchered the sport in live TV" absolutely demolishes any shred of credibility "Helms" may have possessed. Talk about outrageously OTT language.
More importantly, nowhere does "Helms" offer any proof of whatever ISU plot he thinks exists. All he says are completely false statements like:
In the 2013 Worlds Adelina Sotnikova's perfect short program which is an almost exact replica of hers in Sochi earned barely 60. Now nearly 75? Are you kidding?
To start, Adelina didn't skate an "almost exact replica" of her Sochi program at 2013 Worlds. Adelina skated to her Capriccio Espagnol SP in Canada, while she skated to Carmen in Sochi, which is a completely different program.
Secondly, Adelina did not skate perfectly at 2013 Worlds. She clearly UR-ed her 3T-3T in Canada and received a <. However, her 3T-3T in Sochi was huge and clearly rotated. It was one of the best 3T-3Ts I've ever seen her do, much better than the one she landed in Canada.
Thirdly, Adelina received a Level 2 spin in Canada (I need to re-watch her 2013 Worlds SP again, but IIRC, she made a mistake and didn't hold one of her positions long enough). In Sochi, Adelina received all level 4s on her spins.
Fourthly, Adelina skated far better in terms of PCS in Sochi then she did in Canada--much more speed, attack, energy, etc.
Given that Adelina skated better in Sochi than in Canada, is it a surprise that Adelina scored higher in Sochi?
Also:
The truth is that a skater like Adelina Sotnikova or Julia Lipnitskaia needs at least five years of hard training and a bit of luck to reach the kind of level of skating of these trio veterans.
Adelina and Julia are definitely weaker than skaters like Yu-Na, Mao and Carolina in many areas of their skating. On the other hand, they match or exceed the "trio veterans" in other areas of skating. Adelina and Julia have better spins, for instance, and they have more transitions in their current programs than at least 2 of the 3 members of the "trio veterans." But my biggest question is, why five years of hard training? Is there an arbitrary five year limit in the ISU handbook that prevents up-and-coming skaters from scoring as high as the veterans?
And finally, I don't even know what to make of this hysterical ranting about Putin and North Korea:
No matter how North Korea tries to convince the world that their people live in paradise, millions are still starving to death. Putin and his chauvinistic crowd cheer for Adelina's skating and her scores, but it cannot make her skating worthy of gold, not even surpass Kostner.
Russian's logics and the ISU's denial shall continue but it's out there for everybody to see. North Korea's mythic leader may be a god riding the cloud to those dying North Korean, but to the world they are simply brainwashed people in a pathetic condition.
I don't get it. Is "Helms" somehow linking "Russian's logics" and the ISU to North Korea in this "devious plot" he is protesting against? Did North Korea somehow contribute to the scoring of the Sochi ladies' event?
