a very very moving program they have there, gold medal well deserving. my ignorant opinion, its flawless. Song: Love Story (remix)
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They wouldn’t be judged on the same criteria that they were judged on in 2002though. The cheating on behalf of the French judge fucked the way the judges mark scores in figure skating.
Yea, but don’t you think bedazzling costumes would overwhelm the mood of the music and the story they are telling with their dancing? I’d take the grey costumes over the chola ones anyday.
Well, Plushenko did throw a hissy fit. And don’t mind me, I’m all for Plushenko.
so romantic. they were really in love when they did this routine, got married soon after, and now have a baby
too simple. with todays judging Bereznaja and Sikarulize would easily defeat this crap.
@stads24
I agree. I like the Russian pairs too, they have amazing classical lines, but this program just gets to you emotionally. Sale and Pelletier skate very strong and honestly, so we shouldn’t diss either teams. Also, it’s interesting how all the European judges, except for Germany voted them 2nd and the North American countries and Japan voted them first. Any judged sports will be biased. Still love this program.
There are a lot of people blasting this program, but basically it is flawlessly executed and was just romantic and strong.
два робота выполнили свою программу….mission successful
@slivovich you do know that it wasnt them bitching that brought about the scandal right?
popular in terms of very easy to understand, very easy to read and get emotions. That was brilliant.
Of course, during 2002 Games one could see REAL artistry – I mean short programm of Yagudin.
other judges votes were absolutely equal for free skate (4 for SP, 4 for BS), and what about short program?
I am sorry, I do not want to say SP were worse from the point of absolute Beaty or Sport as it is.
The old rules (6.0 system) open special opportunity for BS, and they took 2002 Gold.
The mirror situation in 2012 – Lysachek used opportunities of new rules, didn’t he?
I don’t get why people like this program. They don’t have any artistry. The choreography is something I would expect from a junior level team, not a senior pair at the Olympics.
They didn’t break any rules. The French judge who admitted to being pressured to vote for the Russians broke the rules. They were willing to accept silver, until the crap hit the fan and the whole world found out about the rigged judging. If you lost by only one judge, and then found out one vote was contaminated, of course you would question the result.
I’ve been noticing a trend that only the positive comments for the Russian pairs are showing. That’s really weird. Just because someone’s opinion differs from your own, you shouldn’t thumb it down (unless they are using profanity, etc).
yeah, I noticed that too. People just need to face the truth that the judging was rigged. The whole world found out about it, but I guess some are still in denial. I think both pairs performed great, but if it turned out a judge was pressured to vote one way, and the Canadians lost by one vote, then of course they should have got the gold.
The problem was that it turned out at the Salt Lake Olympics, the French judge confessed to being pressured to put the Russian pairs on top in return for a favour for the French ice dance pairs. The Vancouver Olympics have no judging scandal since the whole scoring system has been changed. The two situations are totally different. Sale and Pelleteir were willing to accept the silver, but then the truth came out about the rigged judging.
I can’t even imagine going through all they did to get to this moment, and then have judges CONSPIRE against you…..how cheated would you feel for the rest of your life?
The thing is…what kind of gold medal it would be for Canada after scandal? Oh come on…
Should Plushenko also skandal over gold medal of Evan? You won then you won! If you lose then STFU and take your silver!
Yes but my point was if the Canadians were so amazing why did the US, Japan, Germany, or Canada. not give 6.0. If it was SO flawless.
Beautiful performance!
It sucks in a day and age where technologu is awesome, and peopple are supponse to be better and more global we still see BS like this. I dont know much about figure skaing, but that performance was incredible and flawless, just incredible, and the audience and judges felt it too…so why even try and BS it? Pretty sad…Just think about how many other parts of life are scandalized that we just dont notice or ignore…”sigh”….
dirty gold got ….
shameful medal …
shame…..
I know still we all know the Canadian pair won fair and square but they also put in a new scoring system where you actually don’t know who the judges are, taking less pressure off of them to score more fairly. Just like with the Lysacek and Plushenko scores. You don’t know who judged them and you don’t have the first place scoring votes so you just go off the scores of the short, free combining them obviously to see who wins.
@redmustang03 They didn’t cheat, but they would have scored lower than the Canadian pair if it were not for the tainted vote the French judge cast. But BECAUSE the vote was tainted, and a fair score was never given, they could not remove the Russian’s Gold either. So they both got it.