“As I have posted in some of the football related threads, refs have prefs”.
After Russian was taken out of the Hockey medal contention, this was to be expected. The two biggest events of the Winter Olympics are figure skating and hockey. Now Russian has Gold in one of them. And let’s not forget they said the other day they were cheated out of the win against the Americans when that goal was not allowed. They’re still raising hell about it.
The rules state that a goal cannot be scored when the net is not fixed in place. Since it was not, the refs really didn’t have a choice.
“After Russian was taken out of the Hockey medal contention, this was to be expected. The two biggest events of the Winter Olympics are figure skating “
The Russians also lost their expected gold medal in the men’s skate when their golden boy fell in warm up and withdrew and then their little prodigy girl would have won gold in the team competition but fell twice and blew it in the individual ladies skate.
There was no way the Russians weren’t going to get a gold in the ladies or men’s individual.
Judging is a very big reason that I don’t really follow figure skating or gymnastics anymore. Tired of politics trumping skill.