"Wagner needs to shut up. She didn't belong on the olympic team to begin with, Mirai Nagasu did."
Well, if that's the case, how come falling matters for Wagner but apparently not for these Russian figure skaters in the Olympics?
And the US commission said they look at their whole body of work...and looking at her whole body of work, it looks good, so what's the problem?
Are you really saying if you had the choice between Clayton Kershaw and Ubaldo Jimenez to pitch one game for you that you'd take Jimenez, even if he outperformed Kershaw in their tryout?
Unless the tryout match is supposed to be an elimination-style match that guarantees entry into the games (and from what I understand that's not the case) I have no problem with them saying Wagner had the better overall body of work.
On a final note:
Say they're both deserving, if you must...don't say Wagner didn't belong.
She was awesome (if for no other reason than the fact that outside Team USA's performance in hockey Wagner's disgusted face meme has been the best part of these Olympics for me, lol.)
"But since the US olympic team knew Wagner would run her mouth off about the Russian olympics from the word go they chose her instead. She is the beneficiary of dubious subjective decision-making and yet here she is whining about it. And Obi, the person who had no problem with the disallowed goal that allowed the USA to win in hockey, is complaining."
1. Goals are not allowed if the peg is off the mooring.
2. The peg was off the mooring...by like an inch, but still off the mooring.
3. By the letter of the letter of the letter of the law, that was a fair call.
4. That still doesn't mean Russia shouldn't feel pissed, but
5. AT LEAST that didn't give Team USA the win, and
6. AT LEAST the winner was decided in an objective fashion, puck-goes-in-net, and
7. AT LEAST there was no question of favoritism or anything like that.
You can argue the call wasn't in keeping with the spirit of the game...
And I'd even agree with you...
But it was a fair call to make, legalistically, even if it was ridiculous in any other sense.
What's more--
That call didn't WIN the game for Team USA. They'd have had 4:30 left to score...definitely not impossible on Russia in this tournament.
By contrast, this absurd figure skating scoring DID give the win to someone nobody expected to win, and a Russian in Russian ice in a Russian building, no less...
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Some thoughts on my article
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