By JESSICA SCHIEBER
During the Winter Olympics a lot of things come out. There have been a lot of controversies coming out.
The first being the ice dance controversy. This happened between the judges and team USA’s Madison Chock and Evan Bates.
The judges gave team France a incredible score from them despite all their faults, despite this they gave team USA a much lower grade than what they deserved.
The USA team were much shaper than the France team. This caused a lot of fans to investigate the judges. After people started to find out stuff about the judges, they realized the judges had something against the USA skaters. From this many fans have been united for Chock and Bates.
Another one that has people talking is a Norwegian biathlete has admitted to cheating on his girlfriend.
Sturla Holm Laegreid publicly announced he cheated on his former girlfriend.
This has a lot of people talking because a lot of people are talking about how he made his ex-girlfriend in the media spotlight unwillingly.
It also overshadowed his fellow Norwegian teammate’s gold medal win.
Another one that I have seen so many people talking about is the most boring sport in the Winter Olympics, curling.
Team Canada and team Sweden were playing against each other on Friday.
Team Sweden set up a camera in an unconventional spot and accused Team Canada of double touching the curling stone. This caused tensions to rise in the came and some unkind words were exchanged between them.
Everyone has recently been talking about it and since then team Canada has accused team Sweden of cheating for setting up that camera.
A Ukrainian skeleton athlete was disqualified over their helmet.
Vladyslav Heraskevych was banned from wearing a helmet that was a tribute of more than 20 athletes and coaches who were killed since Russia’s invasion of his country almost four years ago. The helmet violates its rules against making political statements on the field of play said the International Olympic Committee.
Another issue that is arising in the Olympics is the ice for the ice skating events.
The ice was appearently very soft and caused many skaters to fall after jumps.
This caused a huge problem in the men’s individual event and led to a huge upset.
The entire podium was turned upside down and USA’s Ilia Malinin missed the podium.
Malinin later said on “TODAY” “It really can get to you if you’re not ready to fully embrace it, so I think that might be one of the mistakes I made going into that free skate was I was not ready to handle that to a full extent.”
Malinin sckred a 156.33 on his freeskate this is being compared to the 200.3 in the team event.