I might not be popular for writing this dairy but someone needs to put this out.
America, Show some grace and stop whinning about figure skating judging.
Bias in AP report on the event isn't what i expect to read, but that is nothing compared to some opinion articles.
USA Today
"It's sad that I just presumed Sotnikova was going to get a boost (in points) because this was in Russia," former U.S. Olympic figure skating coach Audrey Weisiger said in a phone interview. "Isn't it sad that I automatically thought that? Not one person in skating I've talked to said that's the way it should have gone."
Really? What in the world is wrong when Russians win. I saw the entire contest and the last that i heard, seven triple jumps is going to be better than six. Also, Yuna played it safe with a base technical score selection of
57.49 while Adelina selected 61.43, nearly 4 points higher. In fact, Yuna's base technical selection was lower to Yulia's 59.57 and Goldie's 60.64 in the top 5. Yuna scored slightly higher than Adelina on the program component - 74.5 to 74.41.
Isn't the strategy obvious? Yuna and Carolina, the bronze medalist took a smaller technical score base and delivered a (near) perfect performance while Adelina took the risk and delivered by skating on the edge.
Do you know who would have beaten the Adelina? The 2010 Yuna. Yuna selected a 60.90 base technical score and she scored a WR & OR 150.06 for the program.
Unfortunately, facts don't lie. Seems that it is not just the Russians who have to let go of the Cold War attitude, quite a bit of Americans do to ...
What is your opinion?