[Scotswife]

Exactly - if there is a controversy - it’s between the gold and silver spots.
Wagner wants everyone to feel bad for HER.
It appears she is bashing her teammate as well.

As a former gymnastics judge I “get” how the whole difficulty issue affects scores and awards bonus points. I don’t have a clue as to how that works in skating.
If this were a gymnastics controversy - the judges would have to reveal exactly what they awarded in bonus - what their start value was - and how much they deducted in execution.

Level of difficulty was why Mckayla Maroney took a silver on vault despite sitting her vault down. Her start value was that far above the rest.

[Slyfox]

I am not a skating judge but I have followed it for years and I pay attention when the commentators speak about the point system. Wagner "looks" very technical but when you break down her jumps she makes enough mistakes that the judges must count her down a lot.

A number of years ago, it may have been two or three Winter Olympics, the international skating commission which regulates competition, changed the way they judge because favoritism had taken hold. Now it is much harder to insert.

I wish Carolina Kostner were an American that way we could still see her skate now that she is retiring from competition.