Regardless of the controversy, Kim Yuna bowed out with dignity:
“The judges give points and I can’t do anything about that,” she is reported as saying. “I did all I wanted to do, like I wanted to do it. … I’m just glad it’s over.”
A few relevant links:
- The Change.org petition: Open Transparent Scores and Remove Anonymity from the Judging Decisions of Women’s Figure Skating at the Sochi Olympics
- How Sotnikova Beat Kim, Move by Move, New York Times, 20 Feb
- The Sad, Perfect End of Kim Yu-na’s Figure-Skating Reign The Atlantic, 22 Feb. The article contains the following text:
The stench only worsened in the hours after the medal ceremony, as details about Thursday’s judging panel spread. Yuri Balkov of Ukraine was reinstated as a judge after a suspension for attempting to fix the ice-dancing competition at the 1998 Olympics. Alla Shekhovtsova? She’s the wife of Valentin Piseev, director of the Russian figure skating federation. You can’t make this up.
- Katarina Witt: ‘I was caught by surprise’:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SV4sfY2ou_I
- Farewell to the queen: Kim gives it her all in her final performance, Korea.net, with some nice pictures.
- Korea.net’s official Flickr page with all their photos of the Olympics, from where images in the below slideshow are sourced (click for the full size)
Image courtesy Korea.net
Image courtesy Korea.net
Image courtesy Korea.net