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Nobody has a vendetta against her. She seems like a nice girl. It's just that people are frustrated with the blatant overscoring. You think she'd be getting those scores if she represented, say, Bulgaria? The answer is no. That's why people complain.
She's a great skater, but not a very good artist. Her technique is pretty sloppy, her moves lack refinement. I could name a couple 13-15 year old Russians who move more gracefully and have better control of their body while skating. Her PCS is laughable, especially when you watch her back to back with Carolina. There's just no comparison. And yet she gets the same PCS.
Evgenia could very well still be a successful competitor without the score inflation. It's the unnecessary overscoring that irks people.
What changed is that 15-year-old stars of Olympics are what sells. Even people who don't follow skating remember Julia or Tara. I really hope they don't do that to Alina, but I can't help but think that if she wins the Games, she's gonna disappear pretty quickly as well.
Russian fed probably also started noticing that Evgenia is not much without her jumps. Sloppy technique, questionable artistry etc. Alina has a bigger potential. She's pretty immature in her presentation, but not everyone can be Anastasiia Gubanova. I think with time she can become much better in this regard. And I don't think Evgenia can.
ITA that Carolina deserves much higher PCS than both Russians. Zhenya's PCS is a disagrace to the sport, really.
The second half bonus is BS. It was introduced to discourage skaters from putting all their jumps at the beginning. How is putting them all at the end any different? It's still an unbalanced composition.
Fine lets be fair then we should hate or be tired of the overscoring of Carolina, P/C, Fernadez as well as the Russians then.