Im just going to go ahead and list some of the facts. Fact 1 - Technical judging panel was led by the vice president of the Russian skating federation, Alexander Lakernik. (Olga Baranova, the assistant technical specialist from Finland, Russian naturalized is by all accounts, quite good at her job.) Fact 2 - The Russian judge, Alla Shekhovtseva, is the wife of the general director of the Russian figure skating federation, Valentin Pissev. Fact 3 - The Ukrainian judge, Yuri Balkov, has a history of fixing the ice dancing competition at the Nagano Olympics. Fact 4. Sotnikova has no history of winning any Worlds, European, or Grand Prix for the past 3 years. In fact, she received about 20 points more for the Program Component Score (PCS) with the exact same program on the Olympics compared to the game that happened just 2 months ago. PCS is different from Technical Element Score that may depend on short-term improvements on jumps or spins; this increase is simply not within the acceptable range of variability. According to technical score, Adelina, in the LP, did ATTEMPT a more difficult program but did not execute it properly to justify the grades she got. [Unstable landing(Two-foot landing), stepped out, Flutz jump(cheating lutz jump by using inside edge(must be judged Wrong edge), Under-rotated pre rotation, full blade ,step seq. Chreography and transition- free movements] Then Yuna Kims short program was more difficult than Sotnikova . And the score was almost same. How do you explain this based on difficult program theory? Yuna Kim didnt make a mistake. (long&short program) Brian Boitano has said in his interview with CNN, we also believe that Kims score should not have been so close to Sotnikovas after the short program and that is the gap that should not have been bridged so that Yuna Kim would have been a two time Olympic champion. The one thing you have to know is that a lot of successive gold medalist won the competition without many jumps than silver medalist. The Important thing is not the quantity but the quality of jump! ARTISTRY COMES ONLY AFTER MASTERING SKILLS AND TECHNIQUES. Yuna kim wasnt just a ballerina on ice. She delivered the perfect combination of athleticism and artistry and was not rewarded properly. I dont mean to bring down any one of the great athletes. What makes me angry are the people who bring down a legendary athlete who had gracefully stepped out of the rink, to justify the corrupted madness this entire situation is. You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you can not fool all of the people all of the time. -Abraham Lincoln- History will be the judge of that.
Posted on: Thu, 27 Mar 2014 08:25:20 +0000
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