is there such a thing???
just a couple examples : Alina's win : she was definitely the strongest but do not forget the drama with zhenya and all the tears.. there are thousands of posts about this... i wouldn't say it was completely not controversial..
I'd say that every winners at 1984 Olympics (Scott Hamilton, Katarina Witt, Valova/Vasiliev and Torvill/Dean) are/were uncontroversial
Ladies - 1992
That feels like a separate kind of "controversy". I've not read any editorials like that and can only imagine what sources it would be from.
I always sort of disagreed with margin of Yuna’s victory, against Mao’s 3As and non-jump elements. And I’ve seen other people echo that sentiment, but has anyone really thought Mao should have won outright? She didn’t have a Lutz or Salchow, and she also made two major errors and ended up with lower BV—it was Worlds that was controversial.
The overly sanitized sentiment was "how can a WWII veteran support a Japanese American Olympian?"
The fact that Savchenko/Massot's gold in 2018 is uncontroversial is a bit of a miracle when you think about how narrow their win actually was.
^People were really rooting for Savchenko which makes it easier for them to accept a win, and that narrow win made it even more of an Olympics miracle story.
Yup. Yuna winning the free at worlds is controversial.I always sort of disagreed with margin of Yuna’s victory, against Mao’s 3As and non-jump elements. And I’ve seen other people echo that sentiment, but has anyone really thought Mao should have won outright? She didn’t have a Lutz or Salchow, and she also made two major errors and ended up with lower BV—it was Worlds that was controversial.
There are very few completely non-controversial wins.
Men - 2002
Ladies - 1992, 2006
Pairs - 1988, 1992, 2006
Dance - 1992, maaaaybe 2010 (but isn't there a considerable "Davis/White should have won" contingent, at least for the SP?)
Every other time, even if there isn't controversy about who deserved to win as a whole, there's still some issue of the winner being overscored or placing too high in one segment of the competition or doing something that people say shouldn't be allowed (Torvill/Dean being on their knees so long at the start, Yuna doing 3 double axels, etc).
Clean she would have deservely had an higher BV than Kim by 4 points.I agree with Kim winning, but I wouldn't provide Asada's LP BV as an argument as to why she should have. The two triple axels notwithstanding, she also got a (deserved) 3F< in the LP which at the point was called as a 2F. She still deserved lower overall BV, but definitely more shenanigans to me.
As something more debatable, she also did a 3F+2Lo in the LP, which IMO is harder or at least as hard as a 3T+3T when done properly, but still it gets lower BV even now.
Oh, also, I think Elvis Stojko weighed in favour of Mao?
Clean she would have deservely had an higher BV than Kim by 4 points.
But
That ur rule was rude.
That call was rude too.
The judge who gave -2 for her 3A-2T was rude. The one who gave -1 for her 3F-2lo too.
That margin was rude. Especially in the short
That competition was rude.
I would say that Plushenko in 2006 was pretty straight-forward. Lambiel did not step up with his best performance, and no one else was really in the conversation.
It was like, "I'm Plushenko, you're not. Why are you here?"
Clean she would have deservely had an higher BV than Kim by 4 points.
But
That ur rule was rude.
That call was rude too.
The judge who gave -2 for her 3A-2T was rude. The one who gave -1 for her 3F-2lo too.
That margin was rude. Especially in the short
That competition was rude.