Slutskaya complains about 2002 and 2006 Olympic Placements

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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."