I agree, the Canadians fell in their short even if it was just at the end, and both their short and their free skate were like a junior skating program and lacked Olympic packaging-grey, dull, and easier than Yelena and Anton’s. Their programs were complex, with no telegraphed elements, but technical elements intricately weaved in seamlessly with transitions in and out of each element, better skating skills, speed as if floating across the ice. Anton had a minor landing error, but the rest was seamless and they won the short program! How people forgot that it’s a combination of both programs, not just who won the free skate! Though, I don’t think the Canadians free was better, with their old program and telegraphed elements-reusing an old program, you’d think would give them time to add difficulty in the form of transitions between elements, more natural emoting and higher level of artistry, AND changing their god awful ugly, matronly grey suits! Jamie looks like she drew inspiration for Live Story from her great grandma’s closet with that eyesore of an outfit. The Russians showed a deep connection with each other-moving as one, you could clearly see the care and trust they had in each other (even more beautiful knowing their story, of Anton coming to her bed side and walking with her through her recovery and into their union on the ice. Their skating was unmatched, and Anton’s error was minor-he made the rotation with a step out, then immediately back in sync with the triple toe in perfect unison. Their short program is one of my favorites to this day! I get lost in the dreaminess of their skating, only matched in my mind by Aljona and Bruno. It took 16 years to find a performance on the level of Anton and Yelena’s Olympic performance, especially the short. What a travesty to overshadow their moment because commentators and some in the audience forgot it’s a combination of the short and free skate, as well as higher difficulty that decides the medals! They blamed the French judge right away, so how dl we know she wasn’t pressured to make up the scandal with the fury raining on her as soon as the marks were posted? Because they expected her to vote with her block? That sounds more fixed than anything! And yet, these same commentators talked about how Michelle Kwan could still win with errors in her free skate, on the results of her short program if judges scored others a certain way. This whole thing made no sense! Score both teams by today’s standards with each element having a base value, and component scores built on skating skills, transitions, difficult entries and exits of each element, edges, emotion and artistry…..the Russians would win over the Canadians telegraphed elements with easier entries and exits and pauses in performance when setting up a jump or lift or spin. They lacked the same level of difficulty and the maturity expected on the Senior Circuit. If they couldn’t compete artistically, they would need more difficulty to compensate, like Zagitova, though I found her artistry appropriate and on par with the program she was skating as similar to the ballet, and she also had difficult step sequence and transitions, entries and exits (and my favorite ladies short program-black swan that was extremely difficult from start to finish, requiring the stamina of a free skate with how much difficulty she packed in and executed flawlessly; which is how I feel about Yelena and Anton’s short)……Jamie and David didn’t have the upper hand on either mark-just a clean free skate and a short program error seemingly ignored in the context of this circuit side show! It makes me angry for Yelena and Anton’s, that a double standard was applied by our media in being ok with Michelle winning in the back of a great short program and more than one error in the free, but Anton’s minor landing error was used to void the short programs if both teams in deciding the overall winner, only after the Canadians and commentators overstepped and threw a toddler tantrum! Commentators aren’t judges and have no business declaring a winner! They even said Russia was in first after the short and had a harder program, then threw that out the window! 4 other judges placed them second< but no outrage over their scores! One judge crosses block lines and immediately it’s seen as fixed? If a judge voting for a skater from the eastern block as a western block judge is corruption, then block judging was corrupt and already fixed! No questioning of the other judges scores? Throw out the only judge who crossed party lines and they were tied, until you realize that the tie breaker is in the artistic components score, which Yelena and Anton won!
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I agree, the Canadians fell in their short even if it was just at the end, and both their short and their free skate were like a junior skating program and lacked Olympic packaging-grey, dull, and easier than Yelena and Anton’s. Their programs were complex, with no telegraphed elements, but technical elements intricately weaved in seamlessly with transitions in and out of each element, better skating skills, speed as if floating across the ice. Anton had a minor landing error, but the rest was seamless and they won the short program! How people forgot that it’s a combination of both programs, not just who won the free skate! Though, I don’t think the Canadians free was better, with their old program and telegraphed elements-reusing an old program, you’d think would give them time to add difficulty in the form of transitions between elements, more natural emoting and higher level of artistry, AND changing their god awful ugly, matronly grey suits! Jamie looks like she drew inspiration for Live Story from her great grandma’s closet with that eyesore of an outfit. The Russians showed a deep connection with each other-moving as one, you could clearly see the care and trust they had in each other (even more beautiful knowing their story, of Anton coming to her bed side and walking with her through her recovery and into their union on the ice. Their skating was unmatched, and Anton’s error was minor-he made the rotation with a step out, then immediately back in sync with the triple toe in perfect unison. Their short program is one of my favorites to this day! I get lost in the dreaminess of their skating, only matched in my mind by Aljona and Bruno. It took 16 years to find a performance on the level of Anton and Yelena’s Olympic performance, especially the short. What a travesty to overshadow their moment because commentators and some in the audience forgot it’s a combination of the short and free skate, as well as higher difficulty that decides the medals!
They blamed the French judge right away, so how dl we know she wasn’t pressured to make up the scandal with the fury raining on her as soon as the marks were posted? Because they expected her to vote with her block? That sounds more fixed than anything! And yet, these same commentators talked about how Michelle Kwan could still win with errors in her free skate, on the results of her short program if judges scored others a certain way. This whole thing made no sense! Score both teams by today’s standards with each element having a base value, and component scores built on skating skills, transitions, difficult entries and exits of each element, edges, emotion and artistry…..the Russians would win over the Canadians telegraphed elements with easier entries and exits and pauses in performance when setting up a jump or lift or spin. They lacked the same level of difficulty and the maturity expected on the Senior Circuit. If they couldn’t compete artistically, they would need more difficulty to compensate, like Zagitova, though I found her artistry appropriate and on par with the program she was skating as similar to the ballet, and she also had difficult step sequence and transitions, entries and exits (and my favorite ladies short program-black swan that was extremely difficult from start to finish, requiring the stamina of a free skate with how much difficulty she packed in and executed flawlessly; which is how I feel about Yelena and Anton’s short)……Jamie and David didn’t have the upper hand on either mark-just a clean free skate and a short program error seemingly ignored in the context of this circuit side show! It makes me angry for Yelena and Anton’s, that a double standard was applied by our media in being ok with Michelle winning in the back of a great short program and more than one error in the free, but Anton’s minor landing error was used to void the short programs if both teams in deciding the overall winner, only after the Canadians and commentators overstepped and threw a toddler tantrum! Commentators aren’t judges and have no business declaring a winner! They even said Russia was in first after the short and had a harder program, then threw that out the window! 4 other judges placed them second< but no outrage over their scores! One judge crosses block lines and immediately it’s seen as fixed? If a judge voting for a skater from the eastern block as a western block judge is corruption, then block judging was corrupt and already fixed! No questioning of the other judges scores? Throw out the only judge who crossed party lines and they were tied, until you realize that the tie breaker is in the artistic components score, which Yelena and Anton won!
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