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Does Sotnikova deserve skating gold
SOCHI, Russia Here we go again.
Figure skating overhauled its scoring system after the ugly judging scandal at the 2002 Winter Olympics, junking the 6.0 format, making judges' marks anonymous, having skaters accumulate points based on specific elements and execution, reducing subjectivity and ambiguity, trying to prevent the very thing that happened in the ladies competition at the Iceberg Skating Palace on Thursday.
South Korea's Kim Yu na did not become only the third woman to repeat as Olympic ladies champion, and not because she fell or skated poorly. Because Adelina Sotnikova, a 17 year old Russian who two days ago wasn't even considered the best skater in her own country and was left out of the team event, somehow got higher scores.
The key word in all that: somehow.
Sotnikova scored 149.95 for the free program a mere .11 under Kim's world record score from Vancouver in 2010 and finished with 224.59 overall. Kim went three skaters later and performed what appeared to be a clean, refined, sophisticated program worthy of a reigning gold medalist.
And got the silver. Kim's score Michael Kors Outlet Online of 144.19 gave her 219.11.
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View GalleryView GalleryItaly's Carolina Kostner was third, finally getting a medal in her third Olympics. The three Americans Gracie Gold, Ashley Wagner and Polina Edmunds were fourth, seventh and ninth. It was the first time since 1948 that the American women have been off the podium at successive Olympics, and the first time since 1936 that Americans failed to medal in ladies, men's or pairs.
The Russian everyone expected might medal, 15 Michael Kors Outlet year old Yulia Lipnitskaya, fell again and was generously in fifth, while Japan's Mao Asada moved from 16th to sixth after what many observers deemed the best skate of the night.
The judges thought otherwise.
"The scores are given by the judges, so I am not in the right position to comment on that," said Kim, who promptly announced her retirement at age 23. "There is nothing that will change with my words. The most important thing for me was to participate in the Games."
The nine person judging panels are (supposedly) selected at random each night from a larger pool, ostensibly so no one knows in advance if they're working the event. But conspiracy theorists were dealt this nugget: Judges from the United States, South Korea, Great Britain and Sweden were bumped off the panel from Wednesday's short program, and replaced by judges from Ukraine, Russia, Estonia and France. |
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