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Originally posted by Moni:
In my subsequent reply, I did mention that the routine they skated was already two years old...pretty hard to mess up something that they can probably do in their sleep but I think had they presented themselves in a more glamourous fashion (this includes a routine fitting of Olympic competition) and showed more sportsmanship (...that crash during warm-ups, where she said she didn't see him...bull 'cause she turned and headed straight for him and then played it up saying she was punched in the stomach, in pain and fighting in spite of it to do her best, blah blah blah was total drama) then they might have been awarded the gold.
I never said they were docked for not looking better, just stated that they ought to have looked better than they did.
I think the Canadian man ought to get a new partner and toss that mixture of Nancy Kerigan and Tanya Harding that he is currently saddled with.
Moni, I think you got a few facts mixed up. First, she never said that she got punched in the stomac. She did however say that she had the wind knocked out of her like if she
would have been punched in the stomac. Big difference. As for the accident, that's just what it was. He was skating forward and she was skating backwards. Just as she turned back, she saw the Russians pop into her field of view. As far as the Russians, the are just as innocent into the accident. He was skating forward and turned his head just as she popped into his field of view. If you look at the replay, you can clearly see that they both realized that they were gonna collide at the same time. It was an unfortunate accident. No guilty party in this one.
I don't recall them going after the Russians at all. Could you please refresh my memory on that one Moni?