It's pretty ridiculous how the media keeps bringing this up and how non-skating people keep propagating it.
1. Under the Code of Points system it is impossible for one person to significantly affect the results of a competition. Plus all judges marks are scrutinized and posted for each element.
2. The judges aren't the same for each event.
3. It was generally believed that Russia was favoured in the team event anyway.
4. Over the past year it's been a given that Davis and White have been better than Virtue and Moir as they have been able to achieve consistently top levels for all elements whereas V/M struggled early on. V/M also had problems with deductions earlier on.
5. It's always been noted that V/M have more artistic and risky dances which don't always translate into points. D/W are heavily technical and usually similar.
For example last year's Hunchback program for D/W was often panned for being unrelated to the actual dance but was still skated to near perfection. V/M's Carmen was risky and visually appealing but did not always contain the top elements.
Code of Points eliminated event fixing.
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