The Sochi File
As we all know the 2014 Winter Olympics have begun. This is a very important games for many people as it could be their first or last games. For the pair Tessa Virtue and Scott Moir it was to defend their title as the reining champions of the Team Short Dance event. Sadly the pair came second to their American rivals Meryl Davis and Charlie White. Davis and White scored a total of 75.98, while the Canadians finished with a total of 72.98.
Everything seems right? Well maybe not, as of Saturday people have been speculating a potential judging scandal. A French newspaper had reported a deal that had been struck between American and Russian judges, part of which would keep Virtue and Moir from defending their gold medals from Vancouver 2010 and propel American skaters to the top of the podium instead. The IOC (International Olympic Committee) won't investigate the scandal.
In summary, this article talks about a potential judging scandal, having to do with Scott Moir and Tessa Virtue on their chances of winning a gold medal in Sochi. This has also happened in Salt Lake 2002 and 1998 Nagano Winter Games
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| Some judges part of the Salt Lake City Scandal. |
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| The pair winning gold in Vancouver with their American rivals behind them. |
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| Picture of the Iceberg in Russia. |
The People that are in this article are:
-Scott Moir.-Tessa Virtue.
-American and Russian judges.
Best Part
The best part of this article was the part where Tessa and Scott both said that they won't allow a potential judging scandal to ruin their Olympics. That is one thing that some athletes cannot do, they just can't say okay this is the Olympics we have came this far and worked this hard to come to Sochi and pout about something that may not even be true.Yes, it may be hard but you will have to deal with it but it just depends on how you deal with it.
Worst Part
Worst part of the article is hearing about a judging scandal, in my opinion if this were true it would be pretty stupid in the sense if someone works harder puts more effort and really puts their heart in their performance you shouldn't take away that gold medal from them just because they won last time. I'm not saying that their (Scott and Tessa) performance was flawless but if they did do about as good as the Americans or better and still lost that's really not fair at all.
Opinion
In my opinion I don't think this is true because if your a judge for the Olympics you have a big responsibility and reputation and I don't think that judges want to lose that especially on the big stage where most of the world is watching.
The link below is Tessa and Scott's performance
My overall rating is: 8/10
It is pretty rotten that people can destroy someone's Olympic dreams like that.
ReplyDeleteHere's to hoping that the judges are fair and score them properly.
This was a good review Jake. You need to read it over before posting it. There were a number of sentences that really didn't make any sense. If you read the post aloud before submitting it you can catch some of those little mistakes.
14/20