there's no conspiracy, russian ladies have benefited greatly from questionable calls before. korean, japanese, and american skaters also benefit from bad calls sometimes as well
Ted said Rino’s lutz looked “a little underrotated“. That‘s a bit different from your “SHE WAS SO OVERSCORED MAIIA WAS ROBBED THE UR WAS SO OBVIOUS OMG CONSPIRACY“ I mean, sorry, but come on.... Even if you call that jump UR, overall, Maiia still didn‘t have a good skate, she had a fall and a step out. Two big mistakes. Rino had one smaller mistake. Her program might not have been particularly interesting but she does interpret it nicely and she has good speed, flow and skating skills. Maiia seemed nervous. She did fight for those combos, though and good for her. She showed grit and improvement and this is remarkable considering she last skated about two weeks ago. I prefer Maiia’s skating to Rino’s, I think she stands out more naturally even if her program is pretty bad. So, I’m definitely not biased for Rino who I have to admit haven’t ever even seen skate before yesterday. But I still really cannot say that Maiia deserved the bronze today, not when she herself had a rough skate and was up against a skater who performed so well. I‘m just tired of your constant claims of ”anti-Russian judging“. Like... what even...?
Let's not pretend like Maiia did not benefit from this judging panel. Maiia jumped 3 Lutzes at this competiton, who all had a flat to inside edge especially the one in the short had an inside edge on camera and the two in short look flat to slightly inside even at bad angles.
There may have been a few uncalled UR and edges but that is normal in this sport. ( We all wish the ISU would be more consistent--- if you make a rule you should enforce it all the time, every event, consistently---) But, I think all the girls benefited from the lenient panel a bit ( they all had borderline UR jumps or edge calls that went uncalled) and the end result was fair. It is amazing to have 4 such amazing talents at an event from three different countries. The future of ladies skating is bright!
There is this website that keeps detailed statistics on any skating run, the scores, calls, and who were the people calling and judging.
Next week, new JGP, new panel of judges, all those statistics do add up over a time and certain trends can be acknowledged.
On some knowledgeable fan boards, these statistics are used to call on certain judges' objectivity.
https://figure-skating-charts.com and some others who put in all this effort.
What are your thoughts about the third event? Lots of upsets here in predictions. Which skater(s)/team(s) surprised you? Who do you feel needs improvement and in what way?
I don’t think the lack of calls at this event changed the end result
He was ruled ineligible to compete because he had competed too recently while representing Russia. It was a screwup by the Israeli fed to send him.Does anyone know why Lev Vinokur was marked as DSQ in the Riga ISU results? I can't find anything about what could have caused a disqualification.
He was ruled ineligible to compete because he had competed too recently while representing Russia. It was a screwup by the Israeli fed to send him.