Who cares if it is 88 or 91 degrees of underrotation?
The rules care. Either examine precisely or stop acting like the scores should be taken as matter of fact.
And if you indeed do not care much, that shows exactly why the rules/judging are not optimal, and why a < call should not be the main factor in who wins a competition or a not.
In my time, the only pair who were a class above their elite contemporaries were Gordeeva & Grinkov. Sui & Han are terrific, but they do not really qualify for this accolade.
This is a fallacy. Sui/Han compared to this field were indeed like Gordeeva/Grinkov, and frankly Sui/Han at their best (and even in many moments of this championship) have shown a greater level of expression and intricacy than G/G were ever capable of. They've pushed the discipline to a new level.
If you truly believe Mishina/Gallimov "were on the same level" then actually provide reasoning and give detailed examples for how their skating skills, expression, musicality, and unity deserve to score the same.
And really, anyone who is arguing this result was the correct one, should then be arguing that Shen/Zhao deserved to win 1999 Worlds over Berezhnaya/Sikharulidze.
Last edited: