Slutskaya complains about 2002 and 2006 Olympic Placements

[bardtoob]

The judges didn’t “dump” Slutskaya, although her awful posture and technique in her basic skating — was she ever close to upright if she wasn’t gliding on two feet? — and little nuance skating after Asada in the SP gave them reason to. They simply didn’t inflate her when another skater skated up to her, which no one else had done all season.

Slutskaya was dumped because they didn't make Asada "wait for her turn". That was very unusual, given figure skating was just coming out of the 6.0 era; they let a Jr. skater beat the reigning World Champion and an OGM contender at the GPF.

ISU Grand Prix of Figure Skating Final

ETA:

Post in thread 'Ladies FS Thread' https://www.fsuniverse.net/forum/threads/ladies-fs-thread.31641/post-723332

Post in thread 'Ladies FS' https://www.goldenskate.com/forum/threads/ladies-fs.11350/post-151083

I forgot this gem:

"Slutskaya, the 2002 Olympic silver medalist, tasted her first defeat this season and complained that the judges gave her an unreasonably low score of 60 for her artistic performance. She usually earns 64-65."

"I did not lose," she said sarcastically. "I don't understand why my programme component score was so low."

 

[orbitz]

Well Irina definitely should've placed 1st in the SP at SLC. She then would've won overall if everyone had skated exactly like they did on the night of the FP.

 

[attyfan]

Well Irina definitely should've placed 1st in the SP at SLC. She then would've won overall if everyone had skated exactly like they did on the night of the FP.

Agreed that she should have placed 1st in the SLC SP. However, Michelle Kwan had a great track record of coming back after being behind in the SP (think Worlds 2000, 2001) so the chances of everyone skating as they did in the FS are not good.

 

[Coco]

Her 2002 sp was impressive. I wonder how it would have scored under IJS.

And ITA about Kwan coming from behind. Sigh...

 

[olympic]

OMG. She is bitter. It really is something to hear a Russian skater complain about politik, as if Russian skaters have never been politicked for

 

[Excidra]

I used to be a huge Slutskaya fan during her competitive years. I wonder if her daughter still skates. I remember she was coaching her at one point.

 

[viennese]

Well Irina definitely should've placed 1st in the SP at SLC. She then would've won overall if everyone had skated exactly like they did on the night of the FP.

She did do a super SP in 2002. And win in 2005 was well deserved.