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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What is Trusova’s complaint? [/quote]

That five landed quads were not enough to win a gold medal.[/quote]
Sorry I’m late to this part of the discussion but what’s the consensus on her point — comparing the skates of the gold and silver winners? [/quote]

Not sure there is a consensus and most people are focused on the drama with Valieva anyway. But it's a longstanding debate in figure skating what the balance should be between artistic and technical scores. I think many experienced commentators get annoyed with Trusova's skating because it doesn't feel like it would be *that* hard for her to improve her artistic score, or even to improve her technique on non-jump elements. Her jumps are amazing but the rest of her skating is sloppy and half-hearted. She often smirks through it like it's not worth her time to do the choreography with any sincere effort.

But landing five quads in competition is a true feat. In virtually any other similar judged sport (snowboarding, freestyle skiing, diving, etc.) doing the equivalent of that would be enough on its own. Figure skating is unique in including the artistic element, which even extends as far as to musicality (matching movement to music), emotionality, etc. Some people love that about skating. Some people think it's silly. I think we know where Trusova lands on the issue, but she's one skater and is not going to sway the entire sport. Most people feel that there needs to be a balance between the technical and artistic sides, and that means the expectation is that Trusova should be putting more effort into her artistic skating. Her teammate was rewarded for striking that balance -- two quad flips, still impressive, but much better musicality and execution of choreography and non-jump elements.

Though it should also be stated that Valieva was so heavily favored in this Olympics, before the doping scandal, because she is the rare skater who truly excels at both -- a phenomenal jumper with exquisite technique on all elements PLUS beautiful artistic qualities. One of the great losses of all this is that she is an extraordiarily talented and hard-working skater who is pushing the sport to new levels, and that would almost certainly have been true even if (presumably) her coaching staff were not doping her up. I wish we could have seen what she could have done with clean drug tests because we all lost something in what happened, not just Valieva and not just the Russians.[/quote]

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