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<\/a>Yuna Kim performing the Short Program.<\/p><\/div>\n
Let me first state that I really don’t know who really did<\/em> deserve the win\u2014Korea’s Yuna Kim or Russia’s Adelina Sotnikova. The latter did one more triple, which fairly gave her a higher technical score, but Yuna’s “component” score, which is for artistry, should have been much higher than it was, (because she’s by far the best skater ever,) and brought her way up to the top.\u00a0 As NBC commentator (and my cuz-in-law,) Sandra Bezic stated about Yuna, \u201cThe level of performance was head and shoulders above anyone else.\u201d She seemed to think that Yuna won, and explained that, as a choreographer, she looks for all the little things, and that no one else in the competition can compare to Yuna. I agree that Yuna was way under-marked in those scores.<\/p>\n On the other hand, as much as I am always more in favor of balletic style, such as Yuna’s superior one, Adelina skated with such power, joy, and abandon, that perhaps she really did<\/em> deserve the win. Scott Hamilton, whose opinions I rarely respect, pointed something out that did give me pause this time. He said that since the Olympics are an athletic<\/em> competition, the fact that Adelina had a more difficult program, that she executed almost to perfection, made the result a fair one.<\/p>\n Adelina Sotnikova performing her Long Program.<\/p><\/div>\n And I’m<\/em> adding that she did<\/em> have the performance of the night, aided more than in part by skating it in Russia, before an uber-enthusiastic home crowd. So, for me, it’s a toss-up. But I did<\/em> lean a bit more towards Yuna, having been a ballet dancer myself, and never even close to being an athlete!<\/p>\n All that being said, this is where the controversy, and my detective work, come in. When Adelina first got the news that she won, she ran backstage and hugged her whole camp.\u00a0 Some others got in on the celebration, including the always-classy and kind bronze medalist, Carolina Kostner.\u00a0 But I noticed a woman coming from a different door to bear-hug the teen-age winner.\u00a0 The woman looked sort-of like Meryl Streep as Margaret Thatcher, and I didn’t know why I took special notice of the encounter, but as I said, I’m always in detective-mode. I even asked Mr. X who he thought she was.<\/p>\n Russian skating judge, Alla Shekhovtsova, bear-hugging Russian Olympic winner, Adelina Sotnikova. How can that possibly be “impartial?”<\/p><\/div>\n When I re-watched the whole competition on the prime-time<\/em> coverage, (I watched it all live, in the L.A. morning,) the woman caught my eye again–but this time she was a judge<\/em>!!!\u00a0 Of that very competition!\u00a0 That was outrageous!<\/p>\n I immediately made Mr. X see it, because I couldn’t believe my eyes.\u00a0 I said that someone as close to a top competitor as this woman obviously was to Adelina had no right judging that very competition!<\/p>\n Since I never heard another word about it, (and trust me, not a second of the entire Olympics coverage eluded me,) I assumed there were good, or at least fair, circumstances I was not aware of, so I let it go, wishing all the time that at least one other person would mention it.\u00a0 I felt like I was in one of those movies, like The 39 Steps<\/em>, where I’m the only one who sees the evil, and no one will believe me.<\/p>\n And now comes news that it’s a big stink.<\/p>\n<\/a><\/a>