I was on YouTube last night right before I went to bed and I began thinking of how much I miss figure skating. Then I remembered that watching Kim Yuna perform is so much more exhilarating than personally being on the ice myself, so I pulled out my laptop and watched her Vancouver and Sochi performances again.

As expected, people were fighting over the “Adelina vs. Yuna deserved the gold” controversy. And for the record, Yuna totally deserved it, and I bet even Sotnikova knows it down in her bones.

But then I saw some idiots posting something along the lines of this:

“Only losers stay stuck in the past and whine over something that can’t be changed. Get over it.”

“You pathetic morons are so funny. What’s done is done; there’s no use complaining about it anymore.”

While I agree that we can’t change something that has already passed, we Yuna fans have every right to complain and whine about the outcome as much as we wish.

But I’m not making this blog post to simply about how someone told me to stop whining. No, I fully own up to the fact that I was complaining about something that, unfortunately cannot be changed, but that’s not the reason for making this blog post.

The people who are telling us to get over it don’t understand anything. They don’t know our reasons for being bitter with the end result of the Sochi Olympics Ladies Figure Skating event.

Sotnikova’s performance wasn’t terrible, as I often said, but that was exaggeration. It wasn’t thrilling, it wasn’t fantastic, and it definitely wasn’t gold medal-worthy. Maybe it could’ve been—if Yuna, Asada, Kostner, and everyone else besides Yulia hadn’t turned up to perform.

But they did. So it wasn’t.

Also, if you watch the two performances here, Yuna was clearly more fluid and used up more of the ice than Sotnikova did. “In technical terms,” as all the officials who had any say in the Olympics were trying to use as an excuse, Yuna was still far more impressive than Sotnikova in every way possible.

There is just no way that this:

could have scored the same as perfection like this.

Heck, Sotnikova now can’t even compare to sixteen-year-old Yuna’s skill seven years ago.

Furthermore, Sotnikova also wasn’t deducted for her “flutzes” as she should have been. If there are any figure skaters out there, you’ll know what I’m talking about.

Yuna’s known for her clean lutzes. All her jumps are textbook, from the beginning to the end. The lutz is different from the other jumps (other than the axel) because you need to take off from the outside edge of the skate blade, backwards, into the air before doing however many rotations as you need to in the air, and then landed backwards again.

The lutz is a very controversial jump because there’s a lot that can be messed up or cheated on with this jump. For example, Yuna is the only skater that takes off from the outside edge; everyone else “flutzes” it by taking off from the inside edge like a flip. Everyone who “flutzes” it should be deducted points, according to the rules of the new judging system.

However, on the publicized scoring sheets for the skaters, Yuna was given a zero on one of her jumps in the short program, even though they were all obviously perfect. On the other hand, Sotnikova was given perfect scores all the way around, even though she’d had a two-foot landing, a stumble, and “flutzed” all of her lutzes.

Oh, yes. And then the judges and officials tried to convince the public that Adelina Sotnikova won because her programs had “more advanced technique.” Their main (and only) evidence supporting this claim is that Sotnikova had more triples than Yuna. Yeah, they were triples—but they looked forced and bumpy and choppy and unnatural and unpracticed. Overall, ty. Her spins were mediocre at best, hardly worth the attention that everyone was giving them.

But based on the argument that more triples = higher score, then Mao Asada should have gotten a higher score than Sotnikova. Asada had more triples than Sotnikova, all of them executed much more smoothly, powerfully, and naturally than any of Sotnikova’s jumps put together, plus a clean triple axel.

Asada is the only woman who had one in the entire event.

But Sotnikova still managed to pull through with a higher score “coincidentally,” and it certainly isn’t due to a dramatic increase in skill in the past few months; her inconsistent competition record proves that well enough.

If this isn’t clear enough evidence that there was corruption and bias in the scoring, then I don’t know what is.

There are those who are laughing at us for being so bitter about something that we clearly cannot change, and I do not doubt that there are some of you who will read this. Here is my message to you lot:

I hardly find this a laughing matter. People are angry for many reasons, and bias may play a huge role in their disagreement with the results, but for me, it’s much more than that.

The judges in Sochi have ruined my former sport. I know that no one can never watch figure skating again without remembering the corruption and the unfairness shown against skaters from every other country but Russia in So-cheat.

Kim Yuna was my role model. Watching her skate wasn’t just watching a skater perform; it was watching her show what she’d worked so hard for. You’ve most likely never watched the documentaries that showed the public how hard she’d worked to get to where she was, and I hardly expect you to care enough to even look them up.

She’s gotten this far after overcoming bias against her due to lack of sponsorships from our poor country. She won against the blatant overscoring of American and/or Japanese skaters like Mao Asada in every competition she’d skated in. And after that, Koreans have been placing so much pressure on her shoulders for her to bring home the gold each and every single time she competed; that’s something not every nineteen-to-twenty year old would have to face, and it certainly isn’t a burden that every nineteen-to-twenty year old could bear without crumbling. Yet, she overcame all of that and emerged on top.

Yuna sacrificed so much to stand on the podium with the gold medal hanging around her neck in Vancouver. She deserved the gold in Sochi just as much as she’d deserved it in Vancouver. If Carolina Kostner or even Mao Asada had gotten the gold instead of Sotnikova, people wouldn’t be so bitter about the outcome, because those two performed incredibly.

However, because of the blatant cheating of the Russian officials, no doubt orchestrated by their of a dictator, all of Yuna’s (and every other skater’s) hard work and years of preparation for this event went to waste. Even if Yuna doesn’t feel cheated, (and I bet she most certainly does,) I, and every other one of her fans who knows what she’s gone through, feel cheated. Yuna is the best female figure skater in the world. No amount of corruption or efforts to erase her from figure skating history will be able to change that. She’s the best. Always has been, always will be.

So instead of giggling like fools and poking fun at our bitterness, why don’t you chew on what I just told you and see if you understand why we’re unhappy with the outcome? If you still don’t understand and you don’t want to, then that’s entirely your problem.

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