러시아 심판이 경기후 금메달리스트인 소트니코바와 포옹

오늘 USA Today지는 인터넷 전면에 다음과 같은 기사를 실었다.

 

즉 러시아 심판이 경기가 끝안후 금메달리스트와 포옹을 나누었다는 것이다.

 

 

 

 

 

다음은 USA Today의 기사 전문이다.

 

This is a screenshot from the nbcolympics.com replay of the bronze-medal performance of Italy’s Carolina Kostner. We’ve circled a woman sitting at a bank of computers on the edge of the ice.

 

 

Fast forward 40 minutes. The scores of Yuna Kim were just announced and Russian skater Adelina Sotnikova has been crowned gold medalist of  the 2014 Sochi Olympics. Immediately after realizing she had won the marquee event of the Games, the 18-year-old skater sped through the bowels of the Iceberg Skating Palace, receiving warm congratulations and dozens of hugs from people assembled throughout the halls. One of those people in the hall was the woman from the picture above. She could be seen walking into the frame as Sotnikova was receiving another hug, a few minutes after her celebration began.

 

 

After waiting for a few seconds, the woman approached Sotnikova. She offered a few words before the two shared a warm embrace.

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Ordinarily, a woman with good seats hugging a gold medalist wouldn’t merit much attention. Those good seats were the judging area, however, as the woman in the pictures is judge Alla Shekhovtseva of Russia.

Just because the duo hugged doesn’t mean there was a conspiracy to rob Kim of gold. It doesn’t mean there was any favoritism in scoring. It means none of that. All it means is that a Russian judge hugged a Russian skater. But even without a deeper meaning, it’s a terrible visual that some will use as fuel for a figure skating fire that’s bound to burn for years.