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Originally posted by Ryanamur:
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?
The interview Rex and I saw, she said quite clearly, "I was punched in the stomach. I was in a lot of pain." Which she followed with some dramatic overplay of fighting against the pain to go out there and skate in the Olympics, playing it up the best she could, like she should have never been out there after the collision, but did it because she is a champion, a star, and must go on.
I don't understand your question about them going after the Russians. What do you mean, like they were making a blatent attempt to take them out of competition in the crash? If so, I never said that, I just said it was bull...from the replay we saw here, she turned and was facing him before she ploughed into him and fell to the ice clutching her stomach. I thought it looked fake, Rex thought it looked fake, we both agreed that it looked like she had time to have moved and avoided the collision, but she saw an opportunity for more drama and took it.