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- Feb 25, 2014
I don't think we can fault the judges in 1988. Elizabeth Manley rightly won the free skate, and 7 of the 9 judges agreed that she was the best.
But she was behind both Katarina Witt and DebiThomas in both figures and the short program,so winning the LP would not have been enough even if all the judges were unanimous (which they almost were). The only thing that could have helped Manley is if Thomas (or Midori Ito) had been placed ahead of Witt in the short program.
I would've put both ahead. The real mystery of 88 is whether the figure placements were really correct. That ladies event is a real puzzle to reach other results given what the figures were.