As my Olympic hero, Johnny Weir, kept on saying - figure skating is a math game. Adam’s program was nearly flawless but he just didn’t do that technical shit that Patrick and Mikkhail did (personally, I thought Mikkhail was awful)

MrsBroccli and I were discussing this last night, and realized that Men’s skating has just become “ice jumping” if you want to win. As much as we loved Rippon’s routine, he can’t win if he’s not going to do quads. It’s turned into snowboarding, go big and win, or look great and do cool stuff and lose.

Yeah, well, you can’t really win this one. You put in more technical and people complain that the artistry is lost, you put in more artistic and people complain that the judging is arbitrary and corrupt.

We channel all our rage into ice sports. Hockey, figure skating, curling. You’ve never seen incandescent fury until you’ve seen a friendly gathering of portly, middle-aged, sweetheart-looking Canadians all shrieking, “SWEEP! SWEEEEEEEP!” at a TV.

Don’t worry. Some of us are still upset about Surya Bonaly.

I don’t know what he has planned for the individual competition, but honestly, I think skating an easier routine that he could do flawlessly was probably the way to go tonight, since the goal was less “come in first place” than “do better than Italy,” which he did. (I do think he got robbed on artistic points, though.)

They’re allowed to participate but it doesn’t count for Russia officially, just for them as individuals and they have to do extra doping tests...except somehow they’re allowed to be in this team skating competition, which makes no sense.

Stop being hyperbolic about the Olympics?!? You are literally the worst person to ever live on this or any other planet.

I agree figure skating has always been incredibly corrupt and is by no means perfect, or not corrupt, now. But the current system that fucked over Rippon was designed to make it less corrupt. Since his technical score was lower than the other skaters, it sort of makes sense/isn’t a McKayla Maroney-level rob, though if…

In Vancouver there was a gold without a quad from Lysacek and everyone flipped their lids. Especially Russia’s Plushenko (who is kind of a fantastic maniac and awarded himself a Platinum medal).

Yeah, I am kind of dissapointed they were allowed to compete as a team. I have no issue with the IOC allowing individuals in individual events or teams such as 4 man bobsled to compete, but they should not have allowed this type of team competition to go forward.

Figure skating judging is usually fucked up but I think this has been happening ever since they changed the mens scoring system (I forget what specifically changed). Chan kept falling and winning. Then Hanyu fell twice in Sochi and still won.

He won in the interview. Talking about how he and Marai were depressed they weren’t in Sochi and got In-N-Out. Saying he wanted to throw up or ask the judges for Xanax before his program. He stole my heart.

Itonically, this whole form of judging started when the judges got slammed for rewarding a safe, clean program over a messier one with a quad.

I, Tanya couldn’t have been released at a better time—I honestly wouldn’t have given a shit 3 months ago.

Quads are overrated. At some point the men’s competition will just be dudes skating in circles attempting 8 quads per routine. Boring.

He brought it. Was better than the others. And Johnny’s hair is on point - really rocking that bouffant, but I have to say I would have liked to hear more commentary from him. I get they want the performance to flow and stand on its own without much input, but Tara (who I also love, don’t get me wrong) would interject…

A Canadian is going to get angry? Woah, this must be serious.

Yeah this was total bullshit. Me and the fam watched all the performances and his was by far the best. He has a grace the other can’t even come close to. And he nailed all his jumps. Screw the biased judges.

Eh, the big issue was Rippon v. Kolyada scoring almost the same artistically which was....sketchy to say the least. But in the end, it actually doesn’t matter because this is the team competition, and the 1 point difference that Rippon would have earned for USA versus Kolyada’s extra 1 point for Olympic Athletes from…