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<blockquote data-quote="Villano" data-source="post: 61199" data-attributes="member: 505">My 2 cents:To those people who think that the Australian's win was due to an actual strategy of hanging back and letting the others crash, are you delusional?&nbsp; That's praying for divine intervention, not strategy!What annoys me about this race isn't the fact that the guy in last place won because there was a crash.&nbsp; Crashes happen.&nbsp; What bothers me is that it wasn't a case of the Korean going down and colliding with everyone else, causing them to crash, but that the Korean actively dragged down those around him. At first, I wasn't even going to blame the Korean for his actions.&nbsp; I mean, the guy's like 15 years old.&nbsp; I figured that he just reflexively grabbed onto something (unfortunately they happened to be other skaters) to stop his fall.&nbsp; Then I thought about the Chinese skater who was disqualified for pushing another skater's leg (I don't remember if that incident caused a crash or not).&nbsp; Whether his intentions were to trip or merely slow the other skater, the Chinese guy was cheating.&nbsp; I now wonder if, once he knew he was going down, the Korean kid had the idea of tripping the others in the hopes that he could slow them down enough so that he could get across the finish. Some people might think that I'm overreacting and being parnoid.&nbsp; You may be right.&nbsp; After all, there's no history of cheating in the Olympics *cough* steroids *cough* French ice skating judges *cough* Russian basketball team getting an extra free throw *cough*, is there?In all seriousness, watch the footage of this kid with his arms wrapped around Ohno's legs.&nbsp; They sould have eliminated the Korean and rerun the race.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Villano, post: 61199, member: 505"] My 2 cents: To those people who think that the Australian's win was due to an actual strategy of hanging back and letting the others crash, are you delusional? That's praying for divine intervention, not strategy! What annoys me about this race isn't the fact that the guy in last place won because there was a crash. Crashes happen. What bothers me is that it wasn't a case of the Korean going down and colliding with everyone else, causing them to crash, but that the Korean actively [B]dragged down[/B] those around him. At first, I wasn't even going to blame the Korean for his actions. I mean, the guy's like 15 years old. I figured that he just reflexively grabbed onto something (unfortunately they happened to be other skaters) to stop his fall. Then I thought about the Chinese skater who was disqualified for pushing another skater's leg (I don't remember if that incident caused a crash or not). Whether his intentions were to trip or merely slow the other skater, the Chinese guy was cheating. I now wonder if, once he knew he was going down, the Korean kid had the idea of tripping the others in the hopes that he could slow them down enough so that he could get across the finish. Some people might think that I'm overreacting and being parnoid. You may be right. After all, there's no history of cheating in the Olympics *cough* steroids *cough* French ice skating judges *cough* Russian basketball team getting an extra free throw *cough*, is there? In all seriousness, watch the footage of this kid with his arms wrapped around Ohno's legs. They sould have eliminated the Korean and rerun the race. [/QUOTE]

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