What other sport changes the rules following a competition then makes it retroactive because a couple of athletes do well? Go back for the last several years and pull up scores for Lydia and I think you would agree she is no sandbagger. She practices in my backyard and I haven't seen or heard of her skiing to the level she did in last weeks tournament.
Judgement call? Please! Lack of judgement I'd say. Utilizing the 12 month average going forward is semi-fair but to tear down someone's score and the best performance of their life is unethical and unsportsmanlike.
By the way, I want to know which "little boy" out of 17 skiers came crying after the tournament because he got his feelings hurt? ("I got beat by that big, bad girl!"). Its not fair, there were rollers, the sun was in my eye, my shorts filled with water and hut my tiny little balls".
Sports do not build character. They reveal it.
- Haywood Hale Broun