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Thread #153763   Message #3603928
Posted By: GUEST,Troubadour
22-Feb-14 - 08:04 PM
Thread Name: BS: Obituary:The Olympics
Subject: RE: BS: Obituary:The Olympics
"Did you say the same when your lot hosted it?"

Why would us Brits favour the Korean over the Russian Ian, were it not a fact that she skated the better program.

Also, consistency is apparently not a feature of the judging.

Our speed skater Elise:

500 metres: she slipped and took out the girl outside her. Elise was disqualified

1000 metres The girl inside Elise fell and swiped Elise's back skate out with her hand. Elise was disqualified.

Identical events, both blamed on her, cannot possibly be described as fair judgement.

The third DQ was justified, as she was outside the line, by however small a margin (one centimetre).

She has every justification for feeling that she was deliberately robbed of a result in one of those three races.

It leaves a very sour taste in ones mouth, and I'm sure the Korean figure skater would agree with that.