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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm happy for the kid from Kazakhstan though! [/quote]

Me too. But I also think Petr Gumennik was massively underserved.  His jumps were solid, and his skating/artistry was better than Shaidorov's.  I didn't think we'd be fair to the Russian athletes.  I would've had him in second in the long. [/quote]

DP. My Russian friends are all saying that as well. I was actually curious if this is true. I enjoyed his skating but idk much about figure skating and whether he was as judged unfairly (seems likely since Russia is the bad guy now). [/quote]

I'm not a Russia sympathizer, but if the international community decides to let them compete in the Olympics, they should give them a fair shot in the spirit of the Games.  His technical score was top-notch, but they severely downgraded him in the subjective component score. I don't follow at all because I thought it was a lovely freeskate.  I thought he was first or second in the freeskate.  He also learned he had a copyright issue with his short program 72 hours before he was set to compete, and had to create an entirely new program.  Maybe that was nothing, but it felt a little like the IOC trying to sabotage him, or at least it had the appearance of foul play. I thought he was probably underscored in the short and was absolutely underscored in the long program. [/quote]

The artist specifically pulled copyright clearance from him because he's Russian, 3 days before the short program. He wanted to use his last year's program, Dune, but also couldn't get that cleared. One of Gummenik's coaches is legendary Russian pairs figure skating coach Tamara Moskvina. At 84 years old, she had the brilliant idea to use AI to compose music similar to this year's short program, with the same accents where the jumps should be and everything. But Gummenik tried it out and didn't feel right about it. He's also a musician (did a gala performance to Bolero where he stops skating in the middle and accompanies himself on piano, hah) and didn't want to skate to artificial music, so he ended up finding a waltz from the same composer of his long program music. He had to prepare that in a day. And then because he has been banned from skating internationally the last four years, he had no world ranking, and automatically had to skate first in the short, and it's common knowledge judges hold back marks from skaters in early groups/lesser knowns. And with all that going against him, he still ended up 3 points out of the medals! Pretty impressive. [/quote]

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