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Who do you think won the Figure skating?



<< canadians won the crowd emotionally making them a favorite, but the russians won it. >>


FREAK NO!!!

The Russians didn't win JACK SQUAT!! The Canadians OWNED THAT ICE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!



EH!
 
Perhaps the judges felt that the russian's short fall was more than made up by a more difficult program? I see they've struggled all the way to the end to keep from falling.

I definitely voted Canadians.
 
Sale and Pelletier skated a flawless program. Berezhnaya and Sikharulidze had two small errors. I'm almost getting used to this. The first debacle I remember was Orser losing to Boitano in Calgary. Then Brasseaur and Eisler were robbed blind repeatedly. Bourne and Kraatz as well.

I should be stunned at the outcome. But I just feel hollowness and incomprehension at the lack of ethics among skating judges.

Unbelievable.

Craig
 
lol @ Aquaman. 😀 (/me secretly hope so too 😉)

Guess we have to wait another 4 years to prove them wrong.
 
this is a sad day in olympic history
these biased judges just crushed all that the olympics stand for...

i'm truly dissapointed.

canada's performance sent the russians scrambling back to the kremlin.....and yet they still lost :\
 
We was robbed, plain and simple. Russians were good, Canadians were perfect. To be expected though:disgust:
 
I can't judge figure skating because I don't know the criteria. But I think the body language of the two pairs involved in this controvery tells a lot. When the Russians awaited their marks, they looked like they were beaten. They were happy, but they definitely appeared like they knew they didn't get gold. When the Canadians awaited their marks, they looked ecstatic and were just waiting to be told "GOLD". I think that says a lot. Most of the time, these athletes know right off the bat whether they've won or not. The fact that the Russians appeared like they knew they lost, and the Canadians appeared like they knew they won, tells me that this was probably a poorly judged event.

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BTW, I saw an interview with Pelletier before the Olympics and I thought he was too cynical. He kept saying "I'm not going to accept responsibility for not winning gold at the Olympics - I can only try my best and I know I can win the gold" (paraphrased). And I was thinking "wtf?" but I think this controversy puts his comments into perspective. There's only so much you can do before things are out of your hands in this event.
 
Well I'm not Canadian but I definitely thought the Canadian pair won the Gold medal, but before all you Canadians start saying how you were robbed (you were, even I as an American feel robbed) remember that the Canadian judge voted them in 2nd place and if that judge would have placed them 1st the Canadians would have the Gold in their hands right now. I was quite perplexed at the Canadian judge's vote.
 


<< Well I'm not Canadian but I definitely thought the Canadian pair won the Gold medal, but before all you Canadians start saying how you were robbed (you were, even I as an American feel robbed) remember that the Canadian judge voted them in 2nd place and if that judge would have placed them 1st the Canadians would have the Gold in their hands right now. I was quite perplexed at the Canadian judge's vote. >>



Hey we're partisan too😉, Canadian voted Canadian.

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"She and Pelletier delivered when their turn came a knockout performance that had them first in most eyes. But the Russian, Chinese, French, Polish and Ukrainian judges gave the gold to Berezhnaya and Sikharulidze. The American, Canadian, German and Japanese judges, and most in the crowd of 16,500, had the Canadians first."
 
Sorry goog, maybe I read the screen on the TV wrong then because both me and my GF both noticed that the Canadian judge voted the Canadians in 2nd place, I guess we misread the screen.
 


<< When the Canadians awaited their marks, they looked ecstatic and were just waiting to be told "GOLD". I think that says a lot. >>


Exactly. Ego and attitude, things you DON'T see through the tv.

 
I voted for the canadians just based on looks. The Canadians looked like "Love Story." The Russians looked like "Leaving Las Vegas."
 
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