Nassau.- Miss Venezuela, Stefania Fernandez, was crowned Sunday night as Miss Universe 2009; Miss Dominican Republic, Ada Aimee de la Cruz, was the first runner up in the 58th edition of the annual
pageant, held in the Bahamas this year.
Miss Universe 2008
Dayana Mendoza of Venezuela placed the glittering $120,000 crown on 18-year-old
Fernandez. It was the second consecutive year that a contestant from the
oil-producing South American country, which is famous for its beauty
queens, won the Miss Universe title. Venezuela had produced five previous winners.
The rest of the top five were from Australia, Puerto Rico, and Kosovo. Miss China, Wang Jingyao, was named Miss Congeniality and Miss Thailand, Chutima Durongdej, won Miss Photogenic.
The televised event included musical performances by Flo Rida, Heidi Montag, David Guetta and Kelly Rowland. Hosts
were Billy Bush, co-anchor of "Access Hollywood," and Claudia Jordan,
former Miss Rhode Island USA who has appeared on several TV shows.
Judges include actor Dean Cain and supermodel Valeria Mazza.
Written by: generoso, 24 Aug 2009 12:36 AM
From: United States, Santo Domingo
Close call for Venezuela, I thought that our Ada Aimee was prettier and had more charisma and savoir faire.
It was a an even match between the two as they were both very strong contenders. I was partial to our representative because she had the most over all charm and was fit to be crowned Miss Universe.
Anyway, first runner up isn't bad, I was kind of disappointed that Miss USA didn't get picked to the last five finalists, I thought she had many qualities.
France and South Africa were also very strong contenders and didn't make it pass the judges.
Considering all the experience, assets and savvy that the Venezuelans put in to winning this beauty contest, a first runner up place is not bad at all for the DR.
Bad omen for Venezuela that the crown was dropped, by the previous miss Universe just before coronation. LOL.
Written by: Edward, 24 Aug 2009 12:55 AM
From: United States, Faux News: Unfair Imbalance
Hey #2 out of 84 is not bad at all. Congrats to both of them!
Written by: Paradise, 24 Aug 2009 1:18 AM
From: United States, NYC
It was so close... and I am proud of Miss DR, and proud that a Latina won.
From: Dominican Republic, Parque Colon statue of Anacaona
beauty contests and wrestling are not to be taken seriously ......they are both staged ,for a public that can never be underestimated
Written by: BASTA, 24 Aug 2009 7:12 AM
From: Dominican Republic, = Ghetto-SPM-Barrio Blanco
FredCDobbs, Well put
Way too White
Written by: Gringo_1, 24 Aug 2009 8:59 AM
From: Dominican Republic, Maimon (Bonao)
Congratulations to the people of the DR. Whether it is staged or not, second place is quite an accomplishment! A day to be proud.
Written by: Divinna, 24 Aug 2009 9:03 AM
From: Dominican Republic
That was a bunch of Balony!
DR should've won
Written by: Divinna, 24 Aug 2009 9:06 AM
From: Dominican Republic
Bad Omen, lol I thought the same We'll see our Miss DR crowned soon, you'll see.
Written by: anthonyC, 24 Aug 2009 9:07 AM
From: United States
"Written by: Divinna, 24 Aug 2009 9:03 AM
From: Dominican Republic
That was a bunch of Balony!
DR should've won"
Really?
Why?
Written by: Divinna, 24 Aug 2009 9:11 AM
From: Dominican Republic
You know why don't act you don't know
From: United States, MD
Dominican Republic should have one, she had one of the highest scores, had charm, looked beautiful, i thin what blew her off was the question, that one was the toughest. But i still think she should have one.
Written by: Divinna, 24 Aug 2009 9:12 AM
From: Dominican Republic
Ada Aimee was prettier and had more charisma and savoir faire
There you go.
Written by: Divinna, 24 Aug 2009 9:14 AM
From: Dominican Republic
Dominican Republic should have one, she had one of the highest scores, had charm, looked beautiful, i thin what blew her off was the question, that one was the toughest. But i still think she should have one.
I think you are correct, but I think the answer was also lost in translation.
Written by: generoso, 24 Aug 2009 9:50 AM
From: United States, Santo Domingo
The fact is the question did her in and she wasn't affirmative in the answer as she should have been.
The question was posed by the devils advocate, an African-american judge spiced with political purposes and racial tones and really did her in.
It was the hardest question to answer and good answer would have been much shorter, the translator was terrible as well. A great answer was non existent but could have been:
Question: Do you believe AIDS testing should be obligatory?
Answer: We as compassionate humans should do everything in our power to help others, help themselves, but being careful not to infringe in the individuals freedom to choose and not be "obligated" to do something that might go against their individual personal or religious beliefs.
Of course I had more time to think about the answer. LOL
From: United States
This is suppose to be a beauty contest first and foremost. After that fact is determined and established should all of the other human and spiritual qualities take precedence. I don't care how great is her interior beauty but Ms Kosovo should have never reached to become one of the last 5 finalists. Her outer appearance was strange or odd at best. As for Miss DR no doubt that what worked against her was the response. It was a tough question and the translator sucked. Had it not been for that, I am quite sure DR would have won. Her scores were always higher then Miss Venezuela and though for an 18 year old, she projected in her response great maturity and confidence, maybe too much at times as to appear almost cocky, the judges should have given Miss DR the benefit of the doubt. Nevertheless, every year for the last 10 years the Dominican Republic continues to narrow the gap, always with a candidate closer to the crown.
From: Dominican Republic, Puerto Plata
Had she just answered "yes"..or "no", she might have won.
What didn't help either was that "Goodnight Bahamas" stunt, which I believe was out of place at that particularly dramatic moment.
No matter what, congrats, Ada Aimee. You're a great girl.
Written by: Divinna, 24 Aug 2009 10:40 AM
From: Dominican Republic
True
Written by: generoso, 24 Aug 2009 11:02 AM
From: United States, Santo Domingo
Just like in sporting events and the olympics being second or last does not really matter that much. The losers have many excuses for not winning, the winners have no excuses. LOL.
In sporting events and all other contests you must have three ingredients to win:
1. You must be world class, well seasoned and coached in other competitions, before the main event.
2. You must be in your best form the day of the contest.
3. You must be lucky.
Ada Aimee was not lucky, she got the worst question to answer, and the "Hello Bahamas" thing, certainly was unnecessary and boastful.
Written by: ambioriv, 24 Aug 2009 11:35 AM
From: United States
Last year we had third, this year second next year first.
Written by: ambioriv, 24 Aug 2009 11:35 AM
From: United States
that was BS Dominican Republic had that in the bag. Specially since venezuela had won the previous year. I think everyone was surprised to see that happen twice.
From: United States
I thought south africa had the best chanced of winning, and dominican republic girl was a knockout. I cant bealive they gave it to venezuela that girl was ugly its bull that she won it should of been dr or south africa
Written by: anthonyC, 24 Aug 2009 12:10 PM
From: United States
"Written by: Divinna, 24 Aug 2009 9:11 AM
From: Dominican Republic
You know why don't act you don't know"
No I don't. Enlighten me.
Explain to me how she should have won a totally subjective beauty contest.
Written by: ny4life, 24 Aug 2009 12:18 PM
From: United States, New York, NY
SHe should've won. She did everything necessary and was prettier to than the Venezuelan girl...
From: United States
Not very pretty at all imo!
Written by: Juango, 24 Aug 2009 12:34 PM
From: United States, far S. Florida (formerly Santo Domingo)
All the girls last evening are winners, every single one of them! Too bad for Miss DR, as she indeed was the overall winner, in my eyes. Regardless, these Big Time Beauty Pagents, are more political than, the decisions made between the IMF and the current DR's PLD admisnistration. btw, Miss Kosovo is a very beautiful women, don't care what others say.
From: United States
both were pretty but to me miss Dominican Republic should of won!!
From: United States
Juango-Come on about Ms Kosovo, I not saying she was ugly, but her beauty was Odd, with that strange hair style it took away from her appearance. But apparently regardless, it worked for her. To me one of the most physically perfect was miss iceland, she was overall most complete, but she barely made it pass the first 15. I am surprise that Mexico and Colombia did not make it to the finals at all. Costa Rica, very pretty but not Miss Universe quality, amazed that they did not send a better candidate to represent them and If I recall i think she was a little over weight for the competition.
Written by: Trujillo, 24 Aug 2009 2:02 PM
From: Dominican Republic
She's ugly and made it that far in a beauty contest wow, congratulations.
From: United States
Trump didn't want a negra there, lets face it.
remember the comment he made after Amelia Vega gave up her crown in 2004 to Miss Australia.
"Finally a real beauty"
Yes he said that, so what Amelia was ugly? Latinas are ugly? No Blondes are just prettier in his eyes.
From: United States
It's all fixed, just like wrestling.
From: United States
tiano i don' think it has to do any thing with color of her skin i think that donald trump really does not like latinas come on every time he talks about his fav miss universe's he never says a latina i think he just dosn't like latinos at all and i do think it's fixed
From: United States
Written by: generoso, 24 Aug 2009 9:50 AM
The fact is the question did her in and she wasn't affirmative in the answer as she should have been. The question was posed by the devils advocate, an African-american judge spiced with political purposes and racial tones and really did her in.
I have to ask a question of you Generoso. How is the question posed to her a hard question and what does race (African-American) have to do with the question? I have entered dozens of pageants and we are drilled over and over and over again on the same questions asked at this event. We are provided with the best answers to these questions by professionals with many years of experience.
I just do not see how this question was hard or how it was what lost it for her. I also do not see why you interject race in the matter. When I competed, it was mostly African Americans who assisted us latinas, the white girls and others were jealous and did nothing to help and always gave bad advice.
From: United States
In these events White girls distance themselves from us latinas. It was always women of African descent that befriended us or we were all alone in our own groups. We latinas were a threat, competition. So I do not know why you try to imply that an African American judge did her in.
She provided a perfect answer, it was her delivery of the answer that was the problem. If anything they provided her with a good question and because she was nervous she screwed up the delivery of the answer. It was not a political question, or asked by the devil. Why is there so much racism in this forum?
Written by: UnLatino, 24 Aug 2009 4:51 PM
From: United States, FL
To be fair, the 5 finalists should be asked the same question(s). One at the time, with the others away so that they don't know the question(s). They could call one finalist at the time, she does a last walk for the jury and public, and answers the question(s)...
Written by: Botemon, 24 Aug 2009 7:29 PM
From: Dominican Republic, La Isabella
All is fair in Love and War (in an unfair world).
Our DR Miss is WAY MORE beautiful!
Happy for all though....
From: United States
Unlatino-You are absolutely and positively right. That is the only and the best way to be fair to all the girls. Why should one contestant get an easy question but the other a hard one. I believe it use to be done that way. Anyway, it is the best way for the judges to compare the responses for the same question among all of the contestants.
From: United States
Tainoloco-"donald trump really does not like latinas" - I Would tend to agree. Donald has a preference for blonde eastern european women. His ex-wife Ivana was from Czechoslovakia and most of his recent girl friends are from that region of the world. I notice that an unusual number of the contestants that ended up as semi-finalists, were from eastern europe, which to me was questionable. Even though Donald is the owner of the pageant, I doubt that he would actually fix the results, but I would not be surprised if he would sway the results in his favor for what ever reason that would dim his fancy.
Written by: generoso, 24 Aug 2009 8:41 PM
From: United States, Santo Domingo
dominicansunited
Give it up Brasil, troll, you are the one wanting to bring race into this thread where myself, or nobody else was referring to discrimination, or racism, and only providing a narrative of the factual events.
Should I translate for you?: here is my statement before you tried to twist the meaning around, troll:
The question was posed by the devils advocate, (meaning a person that might have wanted to favor her for being black, but instead hurt her the most) "an African-american judge" (description of the judge, could have been Nordic viking type or Chinese Mongolian), "spiced with political purposes and racial tones and really did her in".(The aids subject in Africa (black continent) is a very political and religious subject with much controversy, from religious banning the use of condoms to forcing people to be tested). I am talking about the question only. Duh, duh, duh.
OK Mr. wise guy?
Written by: anthonyC, 24 Aug 2009 8:45 PM
From: United States
"Written by: divinedominicana,
tiano i don' think it has to do any thing with color of her skin i think that donald trump really does not like latinas come on every time he talks about his fav miss universe's he never says a latina i think he just dosn't like latinos at all and i do think it's fixed"
Are you really that dense?
Last time I look Miss Venezuela is a Latina. Now you can argue that the Miss D.R. is not a Latina but to say it is rigged so that a Latina can't win is just plain asinine.
BTW Miss Costa Rica was prettier than any other girl there.
From: United States
donald trump always does not favor latinas did you know that it took him longer then ever to go say congrats to miss venezuela who is btw latina and the same thing would of happened if Miss DR would of won. He does not like latinas at all
From: United States, Fresh Water Paradise-NY Finger Lakes
As Queen Elizabeth was told when she watched the America's Cup race at the Newport Yacht Club in the early 1980's and, after being told that the American yacht "courageous had won, she asked:"who came in second place"? The club commodore politely replied: "your majesty, with all due respect, in this sport there is no second place"! That could be an appropriate statement here as well.
Obviously, we are all sore our girl didn't win. Looking at picture No. 2 in above sequence, one would be very hard pressed to state that the winner was undeserving, however.
As in every olympics, I have a tendency to put aside patriotic fervor and cheer the competitors for their hard work and achievement. That's good sportsmanship and appreciation of good and tough competition. Strictly in my opinion, that's the way it should be.
From: United States
A first place runner up is not bad at all, but its bad when she deserved the crown and did not get it because she was robbed from it. Ada was one of the favorites since the beginning. She received the highest points in the evening gown, second in swinsuit, and her answer wasnt the best but it wasnt the worse. I have no idea why she was not given her crown when she worked so hard for it. none of the 5 contestant answered the question that was asked. could it be racism? only they know but it will cost the contest its reputation! Miss Universe 2009 is Ada!
From: United States
beautifulbutterfly-You are so right, indeed. She basically won in every category always above miss venezuela. And like you said, her answer was not the best, but not bad enough not to have won the crown. I wish, the judges could provide a feed back about their decision, like after a jury trial and the jurors are allowed to express an opinion.
Written by: generoso, 25 Aug 2009 8:19 AM
From: United States, Santo Domingo
Ada Aimeé speaks like a true queen and is not a sore loser, in her statements by phone to the press:
Al conceder una entrevista por la vía telefónica desde Bahamas, la modelo agradeció la valoración de los que han planteado que fue despojada de la corona por la cantidad de puntos que acumuló en cada renglón.
"Realmente agradezco muchísimo que la gente me vea así... nunca pensé que iba a llegar tan lejos. Si no hubiera sido por la ayuda de tanta gente no lo hubiese logrado... mucha gente me dijo eso allá, y esas son las cosas con las que uno se queda, que lo hizo bien, que a la gente le gustó", refirió.
De la Cruz dijo que no tiene ningún comentario contrario a los resultados que dieron como ganadora a la venezolana Stefanía Fernández. "Me siento muy bien con que ganara Stefanía, es una persona muy buena con la que hice muy buena amistad durante el concurso, compartimos como si hubiésemos pasado dos años juntas.
Written by: generoso, 25 Aug 2009 8:20 AM
From: United States, Santo Domingo
Continued (2):
Ella me decía durante toda la noche que yo ganaría y cuando vi que fue ella, me sentí bien, porque realmente se entregó".
La pregunta final, no la escuchó bien
Cuando los jueces sometieron a un interrogatorio a las finalistas, cuando le correspondió su turno la pregunta sobre la prevención del VIH-Sida, a penas pudo escucharla.
Esa fue la razón por la que titubeó al responder. "Lo que pasa es que no escuché bien la pregunta, tuve básicamente que interpretarla. En vivo no se escuchaba bien por el ruido. No quise pedirle que repitieran la pregunta porque se veía mal... yo tenía muchos nervios, era una presión interna conmigo. La respuesta no era desconocida, porque desarrollo un trabajo en mi país con niños afectados pro VIH-Sida. Me sentí cómoda con la pregunta y la respuesta, pero es algo que no lo puedo describir, porque tenía mucha presión", indicó.
Lluvia de propuesta
Written by: generoso, 25 Aug 2009 8:21 AM
From: United States, Santo Domingo
Continued (3)
Aseguró que minutos después de concluir el certamen, representantes de diversas empresas se le acercaron para proponerle trabajo.
Desde que regrese al país la semana próxima continuará sus estudios y se plantea incursionar en la televisión, así como darle seguimiento a su carrera. "Voy a seguir en el modelaje porque tengo muy buenas ofertas. Esto ha sido impresionante, la gente no ha parado de ofrecerme cosas... ese el verdadero triunfo, la confianza y el cariño de la gente".
This exceptional woman has a lot of class, and is going far in life, by taking her "losses" as a life lesson and moving on with more vigor and perseverance than before.
From: United States
Yes, I agree GEN, very true, she is in spite of the outcome, unquestionably a true winner.
However, from a different perspective, Miss Venezuela has to live with the fact all of her scores were below that of the Miss DR, and herself realized that Aida was really and actually the winner eventhough the crown went to her.
From: United States
Once again I will say WE HAVE BEEN ROBBED!!!!!!!!!!!
From: United States, Fresh Water Paradise-NY Finger Lakes
Honorable Generoso,
Thanks for postings......it lessens pain for most of us.
What a classy and mature girl, not to mention breadth of physical attribbutes.
Written by: willie, 26 Aug 2009 6:50 AM
From: United States
Hey anthonyc,
Divinna didn't enlighten you, but I will. Miss Dominican Republic scored more points than Miss Venezuela in the swim suit and night gown segment. Although Miss Dominican Republic came in second place in the swim suit segment, she still scored more points than Miss Venezuela. When it came time for the question-and-answer round, Miss Dominican Republic didn't give the best response, but niether did Miss Venezuela. The judge asked her what could women do to break the barrier between men and women? She answered by saying that there is no longer a barrier for women to achieve what men has achieved. I think her answer was unacceptable. No more barriers? I don’t expect beauty queens to be Nobel Peace Prize winners, but if she truly thinks women across the globe are treated equally and face no barriers, she has to be an idiot. She could use her platform to highlight the atrocities committed against women globally, but how can she do that if she isn’t even aware?
Written by: willie, 26 Aug 2009 6:52 AM
From: United States
Even though Miss Dominican Republic didn't give the best answer possible, she at least answered her question. The crown belongs to Miss Dominican Republic.
Written by: zak325, 26 Aug 2009 11:36 AM
From: United States
Something to think about, Miss Venezuela could have chosen ANY color gown to wear in the final round, and she chose red, the color of the Chavezistas. I doubt she comes the class of people who support Chavez. I just thought her gown color choice interesting.
Written by: Divinna, 26 Aug 2009 2:38 PM
From: Dominican Republic
Willie, well put.
I think I was just angry. that we got robbed again.
From: United States
In a earlier post, I mentioned how it is well known that Mr Trump is bias toward eastern european women and how he might have possibly swayed votes to favor those candidates, due to a higher then usual number of finalist selected from that region of the world.
Well, coincidentally Miss Venezuela though born in So America happens to have Eastern European ancestry. Her mother Nadia Krupij Holojad is of Russian, Ukrainian and Polish descent. Was that just and simply a coincidence or what? Now some one tell me that it was only a fluke or am I a conspiracy theorist? Had DR scored lower in the night gown and swim suit categories, I would agreed about the coincidence, but not in this particular case. Some one slightly tipped the scales against Miss DR.
East Europe consist of the following ten countries: Belarus, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Hungary, Moldova, Poland, Romania, Russia, Slovakia, Ukraine. Check out how many fanalist were from these ten plus all the newly formed countries in EU
Written by: willie, 26 Aug 2009 5:17 PM
From: United States
Thanks and i understand why u were angry because i was too. I'm dominican, but thats not why I think she should have won. I would have been as equally angry if anyone that was as beautiful and intelligent as Miss Dominican Republic didn't win.
Just in case you need more proof, here are the sum of the scores of the top five:
Dominican Republic: 18.617
Australia: 18.303
Kosovo: 18.04
Venezuela: 17.629
Puerto Rico: 17.583
From: United States
Man, that sucks, Venezuela was almost tied to last place with Puerto Rico. That really sucks, That is really messed up. Eastern European background that was it, but I am willing to hear you give me a better explanation.
Written by: willie, 27 Aug 2009 1:11 AM
From: United States
hey guillermone, are you talikng to me? If yes, a explanation about what?
From: United States, Fresh Water Paradise-NY Finger Lakes
With these scores posting, one has to clearly wonder how DR girl could have lost.
Is it possible that somehow Chavez's tentacles extended to this pageant? Were any favors called?
We have to really wonder.
Written by: ambioriv, 28 Aug 2009 1:23 AM
From: United States
I 'm tired of hearing this miss dominican republic didn't answer the question well. First of all she was first, and she set the bar for the rest, and she set it really high compared to the rest.
Second of all Dominican republic didn't give the best answer, but neither did venezuela.
Written by: willie, 28 Aug 2009 1:30 AM
From: United States
I hav to agree with you. Miss Dominican Republic didn't give the best answer, it was agood answer, but not good enough, but she still did a better job than Miss Venezuela.
From: United States
It always amazes me that those of you who cry racism over every little thing that involves whites never seem able to recognize your own blatant racism. Just read the anti-white comments.
Why do you think it is not racist for you to say things such as Way too white! when a white person would be villified if he were to say "way too black or way too brown"? Also, why do you never notice the things that are heavy with people of color and almost completely void of whites - such as the professional basketball and football teams? Racism is alive and well in this world; unfortunately the biggest racists are often those crying Racism the loudest. It is time for the race card to be put to rest and let all things be awarded on basis of MERIT.
Written by: willie, 5 Sep 2009 12:22 AM
From: United States
So if anybody is listening to the news, Donald Trump is being accused of hand picking his favorite contestants to be in the top 15, top 10, etc. The Miss Universe Organization has commited fraud and Miss Dominican Republic might get the crown, which belonged to her in the first place.
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It was a an even match between the two as they were both very strong contenders. I was partial to our representative because she had the most over all charm and was fit to be crowned Miss Universe.
Anyway, first runner up isn't bad, I was kind of disappointed that Miss USA didn't get picked to the last five finalists, I thought she had many qualities.
France and South Africa were also very strong contenders and didn't make it pass the judges.
Considering all the experience, assets and savvy that the Venezuelans put in to winning this beauty contest, a first runner up place is not bad at all for the DR.
Bad omen for Venezuela that the crown was dropped, by the previous miss Universe just before coronation. LOL.
Way too White
DR should've won
From: Dominican Republic
That was a bunch of Balony!
DR should've won"
Really?
Why?
There you go.
I think you are correct, but I think the answer was also lost in translation.
The question was posed by the devils advocate, an African-american judge spiced with political purposes and racial tones and really did her in.
It was the hardest question to answer and good answer would have been much shorter, the translator was terrible as well. A great answer was non existent but could have been:
Question: Do you believe AIDS testing should be obligatory?
Answer: We as compassionate humans should do everything in our power to help others, help themselves, but being careful not to infringe in the individuals freedom to choose and not be "obligated" to do something that might go against their individual personal or religious beliefs.
Of course I had more time to think about the answer. LOL
What didn't help either was that "Goodnight Bahamas" stunt, which I believe was out of place at that particularly dramatic moment.
No matter what, congrats, Ada Aimee. You're a great girl.
In sporting events and all other contests you must have three ingredients to win:
1. You must be world class, well seasoned and coached in other competitions, before the main event.
2. You must be in your best form the day of the contest.
3. You must be lucky.
Ada Aimee was not lucky, she got the worst question to answer, and the "Hello Bahamas" thing, certainly was unnecessary and boastful.
From: Dominican Republic
You know why don't act you don't know"
No I don't. Enlighten me.
Explain to me how she should have won a totally subjective beauty contest.
remember the comment he made after Amelia Vega gave up her crown in 2004 to Miss Australia.
"Finally a real beauty"
Yes he said that, so what Amelia was ugly? Latinas are ugly? No Blondes are just prettier in his eyes.
The fact is the question did her in and she wasn't affirmative in the answer as she should have been. The question was posed by the devils advocate, an African-american judge spiced with political purposes and racial tones and really did her in.
I have to ask a question of you Generoso. How is the question posed to her a hard question and what does race (African-American) have to do with the question? I have entered dozens of pageants and we are drilled over and over and over again on the same questions asked at this event. We are provided with the best answers to these questions by professionals with many years of experience.
I just do not see how this question was hard or how it was what lost it for her. I also do not see why you interject race in the matter. When I competed, it was mostly African Americans who assisted us latinas, the white girls and others were jealous and did nothing to help and always gave bad advice.
She provided a perfect answer, it was her delivery of the answer that was the problem. If anything they provided her with a good question and because she was nervous she screwed up the delivery of the answer. It was not a political question, or asked by the devil. Why is there so much racism in this forum?
Our DR Miss is WAY MORE beautiful!
Happy for all though....
Give it up Brasil, troll, you are the one wanting to bring race into this thread where myself, or nobody else was referring to discrimination, or racism, and only providing a narrative of the factual events.
Should I translate for you?: here is my statement before you tried to twist the meaning around, troll:
The question was posed by the devils advocate, (meaning a person that might have wanted to favor her for being black, but instead hurt her the most) "an African-american judge" (description of the judge, could have been Nordic viking type or Chinese Mongolian), "spiced with political purposes and racial tones and really did her in".(The aids subject in Africa (black continent) is a very political and religious subject with much controversy, from religious banning the use of condoms to forcing people to be tested). I am talking about the question only. Duh, duh, duh.
OK Mr. wise guy?
tiano i don' think it has to do any thing with color of her skin i think that donald trump really does not like latinas come on every time he talks about his fav miss universe's he never says a latina i think he just dosn't like latinos at all and i do think it's fixed"
Are you really that dense?
Last time I look Miss Venezuela is a Latina. Now you can argue that the Miss D.R. is not a Latina but to say it is rigged so that a Latina can't win is just plain asinine.
BTW Miss Costa Rica was prettier than any other girl there.
Obviously, we are all sore our girl didn't win. Looking at picture No. 2 in above sequence, one would be very hard pressed to state that the winner was undeserving, however.
As in every olympics, I have a tendency to put aside patriotic fervor and cheer the competitors for their hard work and achievement. That's good sportsmanship and appreciation of good and tough competition. Strictly in my opinion, that's the way it should be.
Al conceder una entrevista por la vía telefónica desde Bahamas, la modelo agradeció la valoración de los que han planteado que fue despojada de la corona por la cantidad de puntos que acumuló en cada renglón.
"Realmente agradezco muchísimo que la gente me vea así... nunca pensé que iba a llegar tan lejos. Si no hubiera sido por la ayuda de tanta gente no lo hubiese logrado... mucha gente me dijo eso allá, y esas son las cosas con las que uno se queda, que lo hizo bien, que a la gente le gustó", refirió.
De la Cruz dijo que no tiene ningún comentario contrario a los resultados que dieron como ganadora a la venezolana Stefanía Fernández. "Me siento muy bien con que ganara Stefanía, es una persona muy buena con la que hice muy buena amistad durante el concurso, compartimos como si hubiésemos pasado dos años juntas.
Ella me decía durante toda la noche que yo ganaría y cuando vi que fue ella, me sentí bien, porque realmente se entregó".
La pregunta final, no la escuchó bien
Cuando los jueces sometieron a un interrogatorio a las finalistas, cuando le correspondió su turno la pregunta sobre la prevención del VIH-Sida, a penas pudo escucharla.
Esa fue la razón por la que titubeó al responder. "Lo que pasa es que no escuché bien la pregunta, tuve básicamente que interpretarla. En vivo no se escuchaba bien por el ruido. No quise pedirle que repitieran la pregunta porque se veía mal... yo tenía muchos nervios, era una presión interna conmigo. La respuesta no era desconocida, porque desarrollo un trabajo en mi país con niños afectados pro VIH-Sida. Me sentí cómoda con la pregunta y la respuesta, pero es algo que no lo puedo describir, porque tenía mucha presión", indicó.
Lluvia de propuesta
Aseguró que minutos después de concluir el certamen, representantes de diversas empresas se le acercaron para proponerle trabajo.
Desde que regrese al país la semana próxima continuará sus estudios y se plantea incursionar en la televisión, así como darle seguimiento a su carrera. "Voy a seguir en el modelaje porque tengo muy buenas ofertas. Esto ha sido impresionante, la gente no ha parado de ofrecerme cosas... ese el verdadero triunfo, la confianza y el cariño de la gente".
This exceptional woman has a lot of class, and is going far in life, by taking her "losses" as a life lesson and moving on with more vigor and perseverance than before.
However, from a different perspective, Miss Venezuela has to live with the fact all of her scores were below that of the Miss DR, and herself realized that Aida was really and actually the winner eventhough the crown went to her.
Thanks for postings......it lessens pain for most of us.
What a classy and mature girl, not to mention breadth of physical attribbutes.
Divinna didn't enlighten you, but I will. Miss Dominican Republic scored more points than Miss Venezuela in the swim suit and night gown segment. Although Miss Dominican Republic came in second place in the swim suit segment, she still scored more points than Miss Venezuela. When it came time for the question-and-answer round, Miss Dominican Republic didn't give the best response, but niether did Miss Venezuela. The judge asked her what could women do to break the barrier between men and women? She answered by saying that there is no longer a barrier for women to achieve what men has achieved. I think her answer was unacceptable. No more barriers? I don’t expect beauty queens to be Nobel Peace Prize winners, but if she truly thinks women across the globe are treated equally and face no barriers, she has to be an idiot. She could use her platform to highlight the atrocities committed against women globally, but how can she do that if she isn’t even aware?
I think I was just angry. that we got robbed again.
Well, coincidentally Miss Venezuela though born in So America happens to have Eastern European ancestry. Her mother Nadia Krupij Holojad is of Russian, Ukrainian and Polish descent. Was that just and simply a coincidence or what? Now some one tell me that it was only a fluke or am I a conspiracy theorist? Had DR scored lower in the night gown and swim suit categories, I would agreed about the coincidence, but not in this particular case. Some one slightly tipped the scales against Miss DR.
East Europe consist of the following ten countries: Belarus, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Hungary, Moldova, Poland, Romania, Russia, Slovakia, Ukraine. Check out how many fanalist were from these ten plus all the newly formed countries in EU
Just in case you need more proof, here are the sum of the scores of the top five:
Dominican Republic: 18.617
Australia: 18.303
Kosovo: 18.04
Venezuela: 17.629
Puerto Rico: 17.583
Is it possible that somehow Chavez's tentacles extended to this pageant? Were any favors called?
We have to really wonder.
Second of all Dominican republic didn't give the best answer, but neither did venezuela.
Why do you think it is not racist for you to say things such as Way too white! when a white person would be villified if he were to say "way too black or way too brown"? Also, why do you never notice the things that are heavy with people of color and almost completely void of whites - such as the professional basketball and football teams? Racism is alive and well in this world; unfortunately the biggest racists are often those crying Racism the loudest. It is time for the race card to be put to rest and let all things be awarded on basis of MERIT.