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Awsi Dooger

(14,565 posts)
18. That 2014 women's result was a travesty
Tue Feb 26, 2019, 01:44 PM
Feb 2019

I felt awful for Yuna Kim. You could see the hurt and dismay on her face. She knew she had combined and executed everything the competition was supposed to be about, yet had it taken away by an upstart Russian jumping bean who basically didn't do anything before or subsequently. Heck, she wasn't the feature Russian entering that event. Yulia Lipnitskaya was the new darling and on all the billboards after the team event.

It was almost certainly payback for 2010 and Plushenko on the men's side. I remember the immediate speculation after that Vancouver result that somebody in Sochi 2014 was going to get screwed in favor of a Russian. I just wish it didn't have to be Yuna Kim, who is all all timer and deserves to be remembered as two-time gold medalist.

There have been more mistakes in the women's final verdict than all other disciplines combined, IMO, at least since I began following the Olympics as a young kid 50 years ago.

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