:roll5: The culprits should be ashamed of themselves.
They should not be allowed to attend any more skating competitions.
:roll5: The culprits should be ashamed of themselves.
Not as bad, but there were some also holding up signs during the medal ceremony where I hope no skater saw them https://twitter.com/skatelove2006/status/1203345239332851713 :disapp:
And people talking about contacting Interpol. About figure skating results. I wish everyone would calm down. It's ridiculous.
The latter part actually cracked me up CSI, Interpol all should get involved
You missed my point, which was that there is a large and growing number of skating fans who have problems with the ISU that have absolutely nothing to with the results of their individual favorites, and the ISU often actively refuses to address these things or else does so badly that they only make things worse. The entire ISU Awards and especially the Shulepov fiasco would be the most recent example from these other areas, for example. We hear ISU officials and high-ranking leaders of ISU Members make negative statements about other Members, even individual skaters and coaches, and they’re rewarded with judging appointments and committee seats. Et cetera. There are many, many, many things the ISU has done and said in recent years that have resulted in the build up of a huge amount of ill will towards them, which have nothing to do with wuzrobbing (but they do increase the sentiment that the ISU is corrupt and lacks legitimacy, and by extension, decreases faith in the results of their competitions).
I think these things should be addressed, personally. And I don’t think the ISU can afford to just dismiss new fans, or ignore the opportunity to turn 'fans of skaters' into 'fans of skating.' But if the ISU doesn’t think so, if they think that these complaints aren't worth responding to—then they shouldn’t respond. Instead, they do give responses (or they sit by and allow their highest officials to make statements with varying levels of ‘official’ credibility) which range from the hopelessly tone-deaf to the thoroughly nasty— shifting blame, making implications, attacking motives, refusing responsibility—and then hiding behind transparently insincere non-apologies and implications about whining fans and wuzrobbings, while rarely offering anything of substance. There are just so many reasons that some fans are angry with the ISU.
Now, this specific incident was obviously tied to an individual skater’s fandom, true. There's a large, vocal contingent of Hanyu fans who firmly believe he should be held up as the paragon of pure skating, interpretation, and technique. But I mean to be responding to your statement about fan complaints and the ISU’s response. I think there's much more to fans' complaints than you're making out.
Short answer : Yes .
Does ISU seem to care in terms of developing the sport? No.
IOC cares more than ISU.
This is not surprising after reading quite some fans were talking about how to get Nathan killed after the worlds. The anger even spread to Raf after his Russian interview was deliberately twisted.
Eric, Ashley, Liza, Nathan all being harassed terribly on social media to a degree you are wondering what is wrong with those fans.
Again..how could anyone ever do this? It's crazy. I love Gracie and I was so disappointed she ended up 4th at Worlds, but she made errors and there is no way I would have defaced anything or held up signs like this. What on earth is wrong with people?
Oh my word. They were talking about how to get him KILLED? These skaters labor long hours in often lonely conditions to share their skating with us. And for this people think they deserve to be killed, because one of them beat another one a person thinks he shouldn't? This is crazy.