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americus 2.0 · 02-19-2022, 02:17 PM

(02-18-2022, 11:05 AM)NewJagsCity Wrote:
(02-18-2022, 04:24 AM)homebiscuit Wrote: Oof. This guy nailed the Russian cheating scandal and put it into raw perspective.

https://www.yahoo.com/sports/olympic-fig...45056.html

Cosmic Justice. She fell multiple times during her free skate and didn't medal. Was she directed to take a dive and thus avoid the controversy so she could still elicit a shred of sympathy without any further hate directed her and the ROC's way? Or did the weight of expectations/guilt finally overwhelm her? Regardless, the skate never should have happened. She and/or her team was in a no-win situation of their own making, wrongly enabled by whatever committee allowed this to begin with. Then the blubbering, like the KGB took her family away or something. It's just ice skating folks. People spinning around on frozen water on thin pieces of metal. Nothing to get life-alteringly upset about. The sun will rise tomorrow.

We watched her free skate to see what happened and we both agreed she threw the skate. Her mistakes were not ones someone of her caliber would make. And they looked obvious. The ROC is just the first in a long line of people who failed her, her teammates and the whole of the Olympic community.

You say it's just people spinning on ice and it's no big deal. The Olympics are a huge deal for athletes who, for the most part, compete their whole lives for their time on the ice, snow, track, swimming pool, etc. It's literally all they live for, specifically the young athletes. In Russia the pressure to perform and win, especially in gymnastics and figure skating, is on a level none of the other countries put on their athletes. And it's specific to females. It's like they hate their female athletes and love to abuse them. If they don't perform to expectations they're abused even more.

So to say it's nothing to get life-altering upset about is incorrect. For her, she will pay by being the very public scapegoat for ROCs cruelty, intolerance and incompetence showcased on the international stage.