She was in the lead in the short program, but overall she was only fourth. She was counted as slipping (sliding on her knees) in the choreo sequence like a fall.
“As a spectator, I look: a wonderful path, an interesting find, a slide on your knees, and it’s beautiful. But I imagine how the judges sit, and they clearly write that if you sit on the ice with your butt, it’s a “deduction”, it’s a fall. Here I agree with the judges: the slide to the knees and the moment when the athlete sits on his butt are still different things.
In the show you have no limits, you can do whatever you want, even if you eat all the ice cream on your stomach. If it’s beautiful, if it complements your production, do whatever you want. Do somersaults, hip rolls, stomach rolls, back rolls, whatever. But the sport must remain subject to strict criteria and frameworks, otherwise athletes will not understand how to win and, in general, how to build their program.
Plushenko reacted to Muravyova’s victory at the Kazan Grand Prix stage
If we want figure skating to remain an Olympic sport, there must be strict rules. And of course there was contact with the thigh, but that in no way diminished the beauty of the program,” Enbert said on Okko Sport.
Source: Sport
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