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8 minutes ago, Agger said:

They didn't go for the extra ends. It was 2 or bust. Guess he didn't believe in stealing one in the extras.

Yeah, Polish commentators also said he was going for a two-stone risk instead of trying to steal the extra end. I have no clue if that was norm for this team or not

Epic failure from Couldn't even force extra ends with the hammer in the last. in the final 5-3.

1 minute ago, Triplecast said:

There still is the matter of the Team Event medal.

The beef was today. Team Event in figure skating is just window dressing. IOC and ISU came out really fine with Valieva finishing 4th in the ladies event.

The controversy is how the positive test was revealed between TE and the medal ceremony. I don't think that was a coincidence. If that came out earlier Valieva would be replaced and Tuktamysheva probably drafted for the ladies event.

3 minutes ago, thepharoah said:

Is there any photos for medal ceremony ?

6 minutes ago, Dunadan said:

if it's true that they will raise the minimum age to compete, I guess the current Russian school might have some difficulties - they'll need to find girls who grow much later.

They probably will. Shcherbakova & Trusova turn 18 this year, it won't be a problem given how valued figure skating is in Russia. Meanwhile the tiktok & social media generation in USA probably hits that programme hard, I don't see them Americans spending years on the ice rink to become a pro figure skater. Add the coaching sex scandals in gymnastics and some reports in figure skating and it might really turn south soon. No such issues will plague the Russian programme IMO.

IOC openly talks about chasing the "next generation" of viewers. They allow 12 year olds to compete in skateboarding in the summer so having 15 year olds compete in the winter is suddenly the worst evil? Not really.

4 minutes ago, thepharoah said:

+ yuna Kim  honestly Russians are the 1st one to blame here IMO , Valieeva was only a victim or Russian_IOC conflict 

Please, BBC roasted Valieva right over. I wonder what will they do now when there are no medals to be taken away in the ladies event? Such a good story all wasted. Russia will come with a new wave of skaters for Cortina and I don't think USA or Japan keeps up with the talent depth.

2 minutes ago, Ros said:

So nobody is happy after this

American media & American skaters are probably happy. They left the arena before Valieva's skate according to Polish ES.

BBC headline: 'Valieva misses out on podium'. They don't give a damn about gold medal or anyone else on that podium

2 minutes ago, Vic Liu said:

Well the biggest drama finished. Let's focus on back to Uygur, Hong Kong, Taiwan Tibet, Air pollution, fake snow, Peng Shuai and such. Hope I don't miss anything related to the Beijing 2022. 

Peng Shuai? Who cares? Thomas Bach (fencing, gold 1976) had a dinner with her already. All good

Anna Shcherbakova will get the Oksana Baiul treatment. Nobody will remember her name after a while

3 minutes ago, heywoodu said:

Ah, the 'but Western media' thing. Straight from figureskatingforum.com.ru

 

 

I read the BBC ticker, in short programme they said Valieva fell on one of the jumps. It was the triple axel. These morons have no clue what a triple axel in ladies competition is.

Good news is that got absolutely smoked out of the water so they don't profit from this whatsoever

Yeah, Valieva down in 4th. still takes 1-2 and Western media can fuck off since the medal ceremony will take place?

And that is probably gold for Shcherbakova already. Well, Western media will have a field day roasting Valieva anyway. But nobody will take away Shcherbakova's gold medal.

Shcherbakova probably nicks it on presentation? She had only two quads compared to Trusova's five.

Trusova quad combine & the second quad in the second half of the programme alone (five quads total). The hammer is down!

My first PP - in nordic combined relay of all things

Two groups completed and Kurakova still leads

Also a very respectable Top 20 finish for Lindsay van Zundert.

Yamamoto actually beat for bronze

Good free skate from Ekaterina Kurakova and she could finish in Top 20

Brittany Bowe 1:14,61 and that is the bronze (first individual OG medal for her).

Miho Takagi 1:13.19!!!

Jutta Leerdam 1:13.83 in 1,000 but had a big wiggle on the second lap.

Ah yes, more Trump & Chinese politics stuff. How I missed that crap in the last two weeks

Yeah, Thompson landed between Smith's skis and that caused Smith to go off balance. It is what it is.

Sure enough, Smith demoted to last for impeding Maier. Bronze for Maier.

Naeslund wins. Duh. Thompson second. Fanny Smith was all over the place in the closing stages again but blocked off Maier for bronze.

Run under review? Probably for Smith.

Only one Canadian into the Big Final.

Fanny Smith almost blew it off the final jump.