Posted on 02/12/2026 11:24:58 AM PST by piytar
That controversy was ugly enough without a scoring debacle, but we absolutely got one courtesy of a single French judge in the finals. Jézabel Dabois, the judge in question, not only noticeably scored Chock/Bates lower than the rest of the panel, but more critically she vastly overscored F. Beaudry/Cizeron — and has been doing so for over a year.
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Judges are above everyone. All over the world.
You speak truth.
Thus my whole problem with judged sports. I like absolute points. The only judged sport worth anything is ski jumping and that’s because the distance is what matters most, the judges are just looking for stuff that helps you jump well anyway and are really just to offset random wind that might shave a bit off a jump. All the rest, too subjective.
I stopped caring about the Olympics after “The Miracle On Ice”. (1980). I saw what I wanted to see. It wasn’t long after that that I flushed the MFL. Two many fur coats, earrings and injuries on the sidelines. Never was a basketball fan. Too much showboating.
The snowboarders Chris Lillis and Hunter Hess announced that they have difficulty with their allegiance to the Flag of the USA and like the NFL losers before them, took no effort to name exactly what it is about our Constitution or Declaration that they have a problem with
The Olympic committee sees fit to continue funding these mouth-breathing excuses for US Olympic athletes therefor one has to actively avoid them, which I do.
Bu I do watch the skating
Women’s skating is coming up
Requesting no more spoilers here please.
What happened to the old “throw out the high. Throw out the low” that was used in skating scores to neutral partisan judges?
Jezebel??!!
Are Americans getting screwed in the Olympics? Wow who woulda thunk it?
I noted that the low score might not have mattered.. But it the French judge had scored fairly, that score may not have been the lowest. That would have won it for the US. Also whose to say the French judge didn’t influence the other judges? Or at least one? In my experience judges of all types tend to stick together.
This is one thing AI could solve…get validated software all countries involved can check for any bias (unlike our voting machines).
“Sex-mad Winter Olympic stars given 10,000 condoms as Games organisers promise ‘extra supplies’ if they run out”
https://www.the-sun.com/sport/15924874/winter-olympics-condoms-milan-cortina/
I'm all in favor of Biblican names ... but some of them are just a bad idea. Jexebel, for example. Or Pontius. Or Cain. Judas? Judah would be better, I think. Saul is a bit dodgy. Haman, Onan, and Nebuchadnezzar would seem to be very ill advised ...
So? Seems the childish olympians hate law and order, so why should they benefit from a fair system of judging?
Unfortunately.
IMHO, Madison Chock is perhaps the most beautiful woman I have ever seen, in form, motion, spirit, and sensuality... the totality of what it is to be feminine.
Alrignt, spill the beans on Onan. LOL
Wasn’t Jézabel Dabois Marlon Brando’s love interest from “On the Waterfront”?
I’m with you. The subjective nature of these ice performances make them more akin to art than sport. Every Olympics and I suppose every ice skating competition, its the same thing.
Give me measurable and verifiable results: Did you get down the hill the fastest? Did you score the goal? Were you first across the finish line?
other “judging” is just a method of cheating or bias.
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