Slutskaya complains about 2002 and 2006 Olympic Placements

[Vagabond]

Sometimes I think she’s under orders to do so. To remind Russians that she wuzrobbed and Russians are always getting robbed. Explaining ahead of time why Petrosian doesn’t have a gold medal.

I think she volunteered for the cause. There is nothing in her history to suggest otherwise.

 

[Vagabond]

Is Slutskaya bringing it up proactively, or are journalists calling her because it's nearing the Olympics and asking her the same old questions to get an easy story? Genuinely asking; it's hard to tell.

Does it really matter? She has been telling the same old story every chance she gets. She is also pro-war and pro-Putin, so it all goes hand in hand.

 

[kwanfan1818]

I agree that it doesn't matter. If asked, she has the choice about how she answers. For example: "I've made my position clear before, many times. Next question?" "That was then, this is now. There are new skaters to watch now. How about that Petrossian?"

 

[caseyedwards]

I dunno I think the skaters all being within like a point of each other after the SP just like Sochi seems fishy to me. I'm not saying Shizuka shouldn't have won she was the best of the worst podium I can remember. I'm talking about the performances, not the skaters skills themselves.

Yes quite absurd!! Who was arakawa? She was last good in 2004 worlds. Quite suspicious for her to be Sasha irina level all of a sudden

Sometimes I think she’s under orders to do so. To remind Russians that she wuzrobbed and Russians are always getting robbed. Explaining ahead of time why Petrosian doesn’t have a gold medal.

Your post illustrates the extreme hatred of Russians that makes the robbed mindset correct

 

[Fiero425]

Does it really matter? She has been telling the same old story every chance she gets. She is also pro-war and pro-Putin, so it all goes hand in hand.

What? If it's true, it's true! She was robbed! IDK anything about her politics or why anyone would bring it up in this instance! The scoring in Fig. Skt. has always been in dispute, going back to the days of Janet Lynn!

 

[Private Citizen]

She is also pro-war and pro-Putin, so it all goes hand in hand.

Ah, I did not know that. I've been avoiding most of the Russian threads. Disappointed to learn this and it does add context.

 

[Lanie]

I still think if Worlds had been anywhere else but Moscow in 2005, Sasha would have won.

 

[caseyedwards]

No way !! I disagree slutskayaa had skate of her life ! Being in Moscow took pressure off cohen. That’s why she was the best she had been but you take her out of Moscow and she falls a lot

 

[Vagabond]

What? If it's true, it's true! She was robbed! IDK anything about her politics or why anyone would bring it up in this instance! The scoring in Fig. Skt. has always been in dispute, going back to the days of Janet Lynn!

Janet Lynn never went around claiming that she was robbed or spouting xenophobic conspiracy tropes. She  did used to say that she was skating for herself, that she she wanted to skate her best, and that she was pleased when she did. Slutskaya would do well to be as gracious and sporting as Lynn.

 

[Fiero425]

Janet Lynn never went around claiming that she was robbed or spouting xenophobic conspiracy tropes. She  did used to say that she was skating for herself, that she she wanted to skate her best, and that she was pleased when she did. Slutskaya would do well to be as gracious and sporting as Lynn.

That was a different era! Plus, false modesty is an American trait! Irina's Russia & just being real!

 

[caseyedwards]

That was a different era! Plus, false modesty is an American trait! Irina's Russia & just being real!

So true. No one in American sports not can ever say they are the best and deserve anything like gold medal even if they are Chen and Malinin

 

[jägerbomb]

I always preferred Butyrskaya to Slutskaya, even when it was less fashionable. That posture and lack of stretch....I'm sure that still haunts Peggy Flemming's nightmares.

I suppose one can make an argument for Slutskaya to win 2002, based on the short program, but at the end of the day the medalists were correct.

Slutskaya's 2006 bronze was an absolute gift. Forget the poor technical content, that flamenco program was hideous. What was she thinking.