MOSCOW, Feb 16 American judge Joe Inman said that the judges overestimated the marks Russian figure skater Kamila Valieva for the short program at the Beijing Olympics. On Tuesday, Valieva won the short program with 82.16 points. At the beginning of the program, she made a mistake on landing from the Axel in three and a half turns. «Camila was overrated. Because of the triple Axel, in my opinion, she deviated from her expressiveness, which is determined by the structure of skating to music. Because of these problems, I was surprised that the scores for the components of the program turned out to be so high. Her spins were excellent, and the sequence of steps is beautiful, but for me the interpretation was a problem. She did not skate with the same impulse as usual. She was careful, all steps and turns were careful, «USA Today quotes Inman. The judge who developed the scoring system for the components , said that Russian Anna Shcherbakova (80.20) and Japanese Kaori Sakamoto (79.84) should be higher than Valieva. «Firstly, they did not make mistakes that negatively affected their performances. Kaori's jumps were great. She skated freely. And Anna is musical, she is a beautiful, smooth skater, and on Tuesday she was very good,» Inman added.
