The gal who should really feel gypped is the one they denied the Olympic team spot to give Wagner a shot, "for her body of work."
Bad-mouthing the system is not going to look good on her resume.
I doubt whether she gets another shot, because some one else is going to come along who knows how to skate a clean program.
Exactly - if there is a controversy - it’s between the gold and silver spots.
Wagner wants everyone to feel bad for HER.
It appears she is bashing her teammate as well.
As a former gymnastics judge I “get” how the whole difficulty issue affects scores and awards bonus points. I don’t have a clue as to how that works in skating.
If this were a gymnastics controversy - the judges would have to reveal exactly what they awarded in bonus - what their start value was - and how much they deducted in execution.
Level of difficulty was why Mckayla Maroney took a silver on vault despite sitting her vault down. Her start value was that far above the rest.