Yuna Kim retired

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ponyo

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That is the same with pretty much all the Olympic judging. If it can't be timed, it is up to the judges discretion. Snowboarding, ski jumping, ice skating, all that.

Hell, even the boxing has a moronic scoring system (at least, it used to). The 3 judges all have to press a button signifying a boxer scored a point within a time limit of each other, or the point doesn't count.

Did the Russian girl get a potentially inflated score due to her eliciting an emotional response with the audience? Probably. Did Yuna Kim get a lower score because she was in Russia? Not from everything I've heard. Her score was in line with what she should have gotten.


And besides, female ice skating is a joke. The male skating is far better. More technical, better jumps, and overall just better. Yuzuru Hanyu's worst performance makes Yuna Kim look like the ice capades backup performers.

I don't have a problem with Yuna's short or long program scores. I do have a major problem with Adelina's short and long program scores. Both scores were massively inflated. If people want to cite her energy and the emotional connection with the Russian audience, fine. Let her have the massive overinflated PCS scores. But TES scores can be examined. That's where I have a major problem with as I wrote in my earlier post. Technical elements like the number of steps, under rotation, flutz. Those are objective elements rather than subjective and needed to be called. That is the job of the tech panel. But the head of the 3 person tech panel was Russian. He didn't miss those calls. He saw it. He just chose to ignore it. It's also the tech panel job to determine the step sequence levels. Adelina performed the same step sequences at all other competitions prior to the Olympics. She always received level 3. In order to receive level 4, she needed more turns and steps. She did not do them. Yuna did do the required steps and turns and yet she received level 3. Same with Adelina's flutz on her lutz jump and under rotation on the triple joe jump. The mistakes are right there on the video replay. It can't be denied. Flutz on her triple lutz jump is something she always had a problem with. And you can't fix it overnight as the poor technique is ingrained and part of her leg muscle memory. It took Mao Asada over 2 years to completely rework her jump techniques and sort of correct her Flutz technique. And she still flutzes under pressure.

As for Hanyu, he's young and has great potential. However, that was the poorest skate by a winning men's Olympics champion. I know he was ashamed to win with that fall ridden mistake performance. If the Russian Plushenko had not withdrawn due to back injury, there's no way Hanyu would've won. Plushenko would've only needed to stand on the ice for 4 minutes and they would've given him the gold.
 

Lurknomore

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Great tribute OP, there's no doubt Yuna is one in a million.
Btw, this girl has never been off the podium throughout her entire junior through senior career- no one else in the history of the sport has done this. Basically, when she's competed, she has always medalled, and the medal was usually gold.
 

ponyo

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Great tribute OP, there's no doubt Yuna is one in a million.
Btw, this girl has never been off the podium throughout her entire junior through senior career- no one else in the history of the sport has done this. Basically, when she's competed, she has always medalled, and the medal was usually gold.

Yup. She has medaled at every competition in her career. A feat equaled by no one. And during her senior career, she has placed 1st in the short program or long program or both in every competition. Which are all amazing stats but it's even more amazing if you consider she skated for South Korea, a country with zero history of figure skating. She did not have the benefit and the support of skating under a powerful figure skating federation like the US, Canada, Japan, or Russia. Everything she won, she earned on her own. She doesn't have one controversial win even though she has several controversial losses. All her wins, she had to win decisively and by huge margin because she had no one to politic for her.
 

ponyo

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It was great to see South Korea honor Yuna and let her light the Olympic Cauldron at the opening of the 2018 Pyeongchang Games . They couldn't have picked better person.

 

KMFJD

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Yup. She has medaled at every competition in her career. A feat equaled by no one. And during her senior career, she has placed 1st in the short program or long program or both in every competition. Which are all amazing stats but it's even more amazing if you consider she skated for South Korea, a country with zero history of figure skating. She did not have the benefit and the support of skating under a powerful figure skating federation like the US, Canada, Japan, or Russia. Everything she won, she earned on her own. She doesn't have one controversial win even though she has several controversial losses. All her wins, she had to win decisively and by huge margin because she had no one to politic for her.
While that is amazing that she won so much it also shows you why it's such a shit show of a sport, just like boxing
 

amdhunter

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She was great in Final Fantasy X, but her performance in X-2 was meh at best.
She still remains quite bangable.
 

evident

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I'm sure she'll have a successful retirement in the celeb talk show circuit in korea
 

ponyo

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While that is amazing that she won so much it also shows you why it's such a shit show of a sport, just like boxing
I've pretty much given up watching and supporting the sport after Yuna retired. Now that Mao retired, there's nobody left I enjoy watching. Evgenia Medvedeva is really good and will most likely win the gold at the Pyeongchang Games but for me, figure skating died at the Sochi Games.
 

Zeze

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I'm sure she'll have a successful retirement in the celeb talk show circuit in korea
She's already the highest earning winter olympics athelete or was it in Korea.

At any rate, she's rich as hell.

I see her purdy face all the time printed on the Korean instant coffee box in Asian groceries.
 
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