Figure Skating

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2 minutes ago, intoronto said:

Gilles/Poirier fourth in the Grand Prix final. The crowd was stunned and the ISU has been called out for the results.

 

Not sure what Skate Canada did but it looks awfully like a second straight Olympics without a medal for Canada.

I was wondering what happened here. And how the newly formed pair of Cizeron and Laurence Fournier Beaudry from France so easily leap frogged Gilles and Poirier with again only six months of training (seems to be a theme today) compared to their 14 years together.

[intoronto 6,414]

19 minutes ago, Surlympics said:

I was wondering what happened here. And how the newly formed pair of Cizeron and Laurence Fournier Beaudry from France so easily leap frogged Gilles and Poirier with again only six months of training (seems to be a theme today) compared to their 14 years together.

Ridiculous if you ask me

[Topicmaster1010 5,355]

There is a reason why figure skating is near the bottom of my winter sport rankings

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And I just found out the French team had a fall and still managed to beat them by 8 points. Where Piper and Paul had two flawless programs. Also the fact that for being flawless the judges have scored them about eight points below what they were giving them last year. What changed? 

Edited Saturday at 11:17 PM by Surlympics

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28 minutes ago, Surlympics said:

I was wondering what happened here. And how the newly formed pair of Cizeron and Laurence Fournier Beaudry from France so easily leap frogged Gilles and Poirier with again only six months of training (seems to be a theme today) compared to their 14 years together.

The ISU just really loves the sexual abuser supporter pair.

 

Full support for Papadakis, she’s awesome, but I don’t want to see either Cizeron or Fournier-Beaudry ever again.

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Has anyone seen the outrage that fans are giving the ISU for its judging of the grand prix final in the ice dance?

 

All three medallists ended up being from IAM teams (Ice Academy of Montreal). Many fans are saying the scoring was heavily biased and influenced by them and stated they will always make up a majority of the judging panel (They at least get 5/9 judges per event and can be as high as all 9 judges from this academy). So they will always give an advantage to their athletes as was proven with a deep analysis of their judging at the grand prix final.

 

Anyways the backlash has gotten so intense that Piper has even written a letter complaining about the unfair judging as of late which has led the ISU needing to review their results. Even fellow winter Olympians have spoken out including Ivanie Blondin.