She did 3 triple/triple combos and a quad. IMO, every one of those was questionable. Quad flip and triple salchow on the end of the combo were obviously under. She’s judged differently because she’s Tutberidze skater. I have no bias against Russian skaters. I was born and raised in Russia, though I don’t live there anymore.
I’m not trying to pick on Anna. There’s other judging I disagree with. But her case is currently one of the worst, considering how other women get penalized in TES, with seemingly clean skates.
The referee was Swedish and the tech specialist was DOCTOR Florence Vuylsteker who is French & German. Neither one could care less if Anya was a Sambo 70 or a Apollo 13, why? What stakes to they have? Its truly an absurd and defamatory accusation.
The world feed we see is the same as the judges. The back end of the loop was OVER rotated, that's why it's came straight out and not curved. What a joke, and the 3s sequence was as straight as an arrow. The only maybe 'obvious' ur was the 4F & it was called and reviewed. Half the skaters no matter the gender flutz.
So basically you are trying to pick on Anya only bc she is an Eteri pupil. Its fine but just own that you are shaming a 17yo child which is just gross.
What is Liza's world ranking like five or six?
Can you imagine the number five or six tennis player or the number five or six golfer not going to the Summer Olympics? Or the number five or six skier or bobsledder not going to the Winter Olympics?
Olympic cap per gender is 4 golfers per Fed
Olympic cap per gender is 3 tennis players.
There are only 3 medals. Why take a ISU quota spot from another country? No one wants to watch ANOTHER national championship at the Olympics. Winning is not the most important thing for 99% of the athletes, its the journey. We want to see and cheer top athletes from our own countries compete and hear stories of other athletes obstacles to greatness.
The problem with FS isn't exposure, the problem is accessibility to rinks and the $$$. Brookings did a study and figure skating is by far the most expensive plus least black and brown people participation Olympic sport not involving animals. Folks know this and it's becoming much less acceptable in younger generations to watch countries like Rus, Belarus, Geo, Ukraine where there is such an obvious severe class divide between rich & poverty with human rights being secondary, pour millions of $$$ into dressing up their little white girls to look like women and skate to Roxanne or Carmen (basically any opera), and pretend to be prostitutes where many in their country actually are. It's a 'look at the flashy bright lights and pretend you aren't living like church mice while old fat corrupt white men rob you' at its most extreme.
