Were you in Sochi yourself or just watched Youtube? I was in Iceberg for men and ladies. After Pluschenko checked out a lot of "russian" tickets were sold to foreigners. Half of the people around me were from Japan what sort of "Russian crowd" are we talking?. We all screamed and supported all. In ladies (I was only at SP) there was some craze when Yulia showed up. And there was some unnecessary Ra-ssi-ya. But at least a third op the crowd (if not more) was not from Russia. Everybody shouted for everyone. Yuna was not in a seeded group. 99% of Russians did not know who she was and greated her same way as all other skaters from the group - polite applause but without ecstasy and standing ovation. Have you been at football games in America? That's were I saw warlike crowds.
Something is terribly wrong with some people here.
I was there and saw what happened. Of course the Russian crowd rallied like crazy for their own skaters. I wasn't surprised by that at all. What I was surprised by was the way they behaved when any foreign skater skated. I sat in different sections of the arena and the crowd around me either started chatting and ignored the performance, or they watched but didn't applaud (there were a few Russians in my section who actually applauded). I would estimate that during the ladies event, more than 80% of the crowd was Russian. I don't even wanna talk about the crazy Rosssiiiiya yelling. It was way worse when witnessed live at the arena than through tv screen. I was sitting next to a family from Japan and talked with them about the behaviour of the audience. They were shocked as well, and told that in Japan this would never happen. And it was not only this family, I talked with many foreigners who felt the same. I did meet some friendly Russian ppl too who were cheering for everyone regardless of the country they represented. But the majority of the crowd was being quite disrespectful. I can only imagine how (especially the last group of) non-Russian skaters felt when they took the ice. Tbh all this had a huge impact on how I experienced the Games. I also found it strange how very few foreigners there were in general in Sochi. Don't know if it was because the tickets were sold to Russian ppl or if foreigners just weren't interested in buying them. I felt like I was attending some kind of huge nationalistic sports event instead of Olympics. :/