- Have you already realized that your players have lost their personal
all-around?
- Dina didn’t lose, she won.
Unfortunately, the judging was grossly unfair.
It will go down in history like the Athenian one, when the audience applauded Nemov for 12 minutes after performing on the crossbar.
Dina Averina did everything cleanly, she was not mistaken in the last form.
Lina Ashram, unfortunately, made a mistake, for which all the brigades take off their glasses, and for the performance, and for the technique, and for the artistry.
Everything had to be filmed.
It is always said that if there is such a mistake, then a person will never be able to become a champion, if the other does not also fail.
Especially as an Olympic champion, especially in the last form.
It was just the shame of rhythmic gymnastics.
- Didn't it seem to you that the girls were a little
at a loss when the judges started giving the
Ashram higher marks than she deserved?
- Arina's nerves could not stand it, because we filed a protest twice during the competition.
Each time she saw a score on the scoreboard that was one point lower in technique compared to the one she received the day before for the same program.
That is, if today she received three points, then yesterday it was four, and today there is a point less on each exercise with a cleaner performance than she did yesterday.
We wrote protests, one was not satisfied, the second was only 0.4 points, but we should have had a point.
Of course, the girl's nerves could not stand it.
- Are you offended that this is happening at the Olympic Games?
- My reaction to what happened in the all-around final is very difficult. Rhythmic gymnastics is on the verge of being excluded from the Olympic Games program because all the beauty and purity it should display has been trampled on by a leader from Israel. Unfortunately, the girl does everything very, very dirty. She makes complex elements, but not too clean. However, this is not the most important thing. Perhaps the judges are not so qualified and do not particularly celebrate the triumph of the Ashram. But what happened at the end of the competition, when Lina's ribbon fell, should be worth points for performance, artistry, and technique. This is a minimum of 1.5 points. And she was given only 0.7 less than Dina Averina, who performed without a single mistake, showed a magnificent performance.
- How could Ashram get only 0.2 points worse in the final for the ribbon exercise than in the qualification?
- I do not understand.
There was a mad minus here.
This is a glaring fact.
Unfortunately, the president of the technical committee, Natalya Kuzmina, could not prove that this was the wrong decision.
Either she was afraid that they were Russians and might not understand it that way.
But it was a shame.
Such things could not be left.
- Let's be honest, do you think the Ashram was dragged by the judges?
“I don’t think, but I know it.
Yesterday in qualification our girls were given a point more for difficulty than today.
Thus, they knocked out Arina.
We have filed a protest twice.
The girl sits yesterday and sees one grade, and today she makes it cleaner, but she is given one point less.
This is a terrible injustice that must not be overlooked.
- What could it be connected with?
- A worthy girl just appeared, able to compete with Russian women, who have been holding first place for more than 20 years.
They said "Enough!", Made it clear that we are already tired.
The judges decided to support the Israeli woman, but still this is not done.
You can do it in a more interesting way.
It's one thing to rate less than qualifications.
But the last chord that happened in the exercises with the ribbon is bullshit.
- Under normal refereeing, Dina should have become a champion?
- Without a doubt.
She is a three-time world champion and performed well today.
Didn't make a single loss.
And Ashram had “dirty feet”, dirty performance, but this is all choreography, for which they should also be punished.
They were not punished.
The latest loss is the shame of rhythmic gymnastics.
As for Arina, her nerves simply could not stand it.
She is a softer and more tender girl than Dina.
She was immediately "killed".
She was given 19,550 points, and Ashram received 23,300.
- Is it realistic to apply sanctions to the referees serving the final and get them disqualified?
- I think yes. Complaints must be filed about such refereeing at the Games. But I don't know how it will look like. This is the failure of the Rhythmic Gymnastics Olympics. I can say that I expect the same tomorrow. Judging by today, the judges have chosen Bulgaria. Tired that Russia has been winning gold for 20 years.