How about I show you statistical analysis of every skaters compulsory figures scores instead. All of their competitions, with Midori Ito 1990 Worlds low outlier. Would you prefer that?
No, I would not prefer that. I would prefer you show me a video of all the compulsory figures from every competitor at 1990 Worlds with a report showing your own personal rankings with an explanation showing your expertise in compulsory figures and of why you would rank the skaters the way you would have.
Using "statistical analysis" still doesn't prove her 10th place figures were unfair. In fact, people say Midori messed up incredibly at her compulsory figures.
@skateboy above said there's footage of her nearly falling or at least stumbling on the figure and making a major error. And statistics are nice but they don't prove anything about how a skater did at a particular competition if there's no actual information about it other than where they placed...not how they skated or if that placement was deserved.
Anyway, using stats, Midori placed 19th, 14th, 14th, 6th, and then 10th at compulsory figures from 1986 Worlds to 1990 Worlds. Looking at the 1989 and 1990 Worlds CF placements, I don't see anything outrageous, given the reports that Midori made a major error in CF at 1990 Worlds.
Many skaters have that one bad skate at Worlds or the Olympics that are outliers. Midori's Ito's 1991 Worlds 3rd and 4th place finishes in the SP and LP were outliers too and not many people were arguing they weren't deserved.
Furthermore, you're entitled to your opinions, no matter how unpopular, but not your own facts. You said "the scandal" resulted in the elimination of compulsory figures when every skating fan knows they were getting rid of compulsory figures long before 1990 Worlds happened and there was even a fluff piece about it on ABC at the 1988 Olympics. However, you were interested in falsifying a fact to create a scandal out of something. And, if we even accepted your false history, if the Americans had so much power, then why would it become "a scandal" that forced a total elimination of CF? Either the Americans had power to get away with this or they didn't and the world was angry and reacted by eliminating CF? The logic behind your own conspiracy theory doesn't even hold up.
You sound like someone who is just using this to attack the Americans because you perceive Russia as being attacked and I question your motives.
Laetitia, FWIW, left the ice in tears as well.
