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# Let’s Talk Olympic Figure-Skating: The Women
- URL: https://go-fug-yourself.ghost.io/olympics-figure-skating-ladies-02-2018/
- Published: 2018-02-23T23:31:02.000Z
- Updated: 2018-02-23T23:59:27.000Z
- Description: TOE PICK?
- Author: Jessica  
- Tags: fugs, Figure Skating, Olympics, #wp, #wp-post, #hasslideshow, #Import 2026-10-07 07:58

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LET'S DO THIS.

I would have gotten this post up earlier, but Heather and I had a super early call for some pre-Oscars media we were doing and I had to get up at 2:30am today. So will this post be inarticulate? WE'LL FIND OUT. As ever, I look forward to your thoughts. My main feelings are: all things being equal, Medvedeva probably should have won the whole thing, and I say that as someone who thought she was over-scored slightly in the short; I think the Powers That Be need to fiddle with the rules a bit so that a skater who puts ALL of her jumps in the bonus time loses some points from her component score because of all the time she spends just SKATING AROUND; I never thought I'd get tired of the trick of doing a jump with your arm over your head, but here we are. The Russian woman are obviously WONDERFUL skaters, but their (successfully) gaming the scoring system has, I think, taken a little bit away from their programs?

Also: *Anna Karenina* is a weird thing to skate to, but if you're gonna do it, at least Medvedeva really committed and included the train sounds, a nerdy lit joke I made when the program started that came out to be true; the US ladies have (sigh) looked better than they currently do (MIRAI I LOVE YOU STILL YOU ARE A TEAM HERO TRIPLE AXEL YAY I'M GOING OVER TO YOUR PARENTS' RESTAURANT TO HIGH FIVE YOU ALL); and I suspect NBC's gonna tell Johnny Weir, that shining sparkling treasure, to dial down his Russophilia down like...12%.

TO THE OUTFITS! As ever, I look forward to your thoughts. I'm not including the US ladies because they did not debut new ones and[ you can see them here in the post we did about Nationals.](https://go-fug-yourself.ghost.io/us-figure-skating-national-championships-01-2018/)

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