( CNN ) -- Controversy in figure skating ? What took so long ? And Canada and the United States play to a familiar result on the hockey rink , while a Canadian faced long odds in the ski cross final four . Cue the conspiracists . Figure skating , like beauty , is in the eyes of the beholder . And to some the decision of the judges at Thursday 's women 's free program was downright ugly . As was the subsequent reaction on social media . It did n't help that one of the judges had in the past been suspended for a year for trying to fix an event at the Winter Olympics 16 years ago ( apparently they do n't have a Commissioner Kenesaw Mountain Landis in figure skating ) . Or that another is married to the head of the Russian figure skating federation , which is cheering for the first Russian woman to win a gold medal in individual competition after she was awarded the highest score of her life . It was too much for defending Olympic champion Yuna Kim to overcome . Not everyone thinks the judging was crooked . Even though gold medalist Adelina Sotnikova had one notable mistake , she did have the more technical program . And that 's where she won ; her technical score was 75.54 ; Kim 's was 69.69 . Chris Chase of USA Today wrote : `` It 's debatable , but not a robbery . Sotnikova skated well enough to win gold . She had a carefully constructed program with seven triples , five of which were in a combo . Kim had six and three , respectively . Thus , Sotnikova was going in with a higher total and made more margin for error , which she took advantage of with a minor hop after one exchange . '' Sotnikova said she knew she had skated well . `` When I had performed all the elements I knew I would be on the podium but not which medal . When I saw I had won on the technical elements I did n't believe my eyes , '' she said . There might be more of an argument that Sotnikova 's short program score of 74.64 was a real gift . We 'd like more of that . Here 's an idea for the women 's hockey tournament . Just make it Canada vs. the United States in a best four out of seven games format . Especially if the games will be as well-played and exciting and heart-pounding and heartbreaking and magnificent and frustrating and enthralling and agonizing and stirring and mind-blowing as the one played Thursday . Depending on whose side you were on , you 'll always remember this one as either a great display of Canadian spirit or the one the United States let get away . And really , the 3-2 Canada victory in overtime was both . Canada did n't score for the first 56:34 of the gold medal game then found net three times in 11-plus minutes . Of the women 's four Olympic gold medals in the sport , this is the one that will be most cherished .
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