Beijing Olympics

[Culturegeek]

Sui/Han deservedly win and again Tarasova and Morosov kept it close. Boikoiva/Galliamov got bronze. Its rare that pairs are this clean. Less than a point separated the top three pairs free programs and less than a point between the top two overall.

[NUguy514]

I was very happy to read that Sui/Han won, and I love the symmetry of winning silver by just under half a point four years ago and winning gold by just over half a point this year. Here's to the comeback kids who returned to the Olympics to win gold and won it: Nathan, P/C, and S/H. Well done to all of them.

[Culturegeek]

Did the IOC just reccomend to exclude all.Russian athletes.

[NUguy514]

(03-01-2022 04:02 AM)Culturegeek Wrote:  Did the IOC just reccomend to exclude all.Russian athletes.

This is the statement directly from the Olympics website. I appreciate that Belarus was included in...whatever this is since Lukashenko is Putin-lite, but it's awfully convenient that this statement was made now – right after the end of the Games and with two and a half years until the Paris Games. The IOC gets to feel morally superior by calling on all other sports bodies to ban Russian and Belarusian participation without having to do so itself. At least for now.

What I love is that despite FIFA being possibly worse than the IOC and basically following the IOC's post-Sochi Russia playbook, all the national football federations which are scheduled to play Russia in the World Cup qualifying rounds have said their teams won't take the field against Russia.

[Culturegeek]

Has the Figure Skating Team Event been ratified?

[NUguy514]

(09-10-2022 12:05 PM)Culturegeek Wrote:  Has the Figure Skating Team Event been ratified?

I don't think it has yet. I couldn't find anything definitive, but I feel like it would've been easy to find if it had been settled.

[Above the Title]

It hasn't been yet! They are "reaching the end of the investigation" re: Valieva...which probably means everyone gets off the hook?

[NUguy514]

Welp, finally, after two goddamn years, the USA was awarded the Beijing team gold after Valieva's results were nullified. Japan now wins silver, and Russia wins bronze because the ISU only deducted Valieva's points from the team event and didn't recalculate the other ladies' skates, which is such...incredible bullshit and so completely on brand.

Anyway, I'm really happy for the American and Japanese athletes, although it's pretty bittersweet. And of course, no one who actually should be punished was punished.

Delighted my darling Evan Bates has an Olympic gold!

[Above the Title]

Skate Canada petitioned the ISU so I am not sure it's over. The US and Japan are locked in for gold and silver though at least.

[NUguy514]

Skate Canada hadn't really done a single thing in all of this to ensure justice was served, and there's a part of me that thinks Skate Canada was just hoping to hide behind the US and let the USFS be the heavy and ruffle all the feathers. They'd get the reward without any blowback from judges or the ISU or whatever, so I'm glad they're stepping up and doing something because just subtracting Valieva's points from Russia's total without adjusting everyone else's score is bullshit and so perfectly ISU in the way they always kowtow to Russia.