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Originally Posted by craigwd
This infuriates me.
First of all, people are making the assumption that since Sid is yelling and passionate, he knows what he's talking about. He doesn't and he even mentions it.
Then he keeps referring to the baseless, rumoured story from L'Equipe and stating that the result was somehow shocking. It was not. If anyone has followed the sport at all since Vancouver (and I have for 15+ years) they will know that the prediction wasn't profound at all. It would be like me saying on June that the finals of the Stanley Cup playoffs would be Chicago vs Boston and Chicago would probably win. We knew who the top 3 team event finishers would be.
We also know that Davis/White have been the better ice dance team since the 2012 Skate Canada International tournament.
Again, I point to the fact that the results are posted online. Choose the supposed corrupt judge in the short dance since the marks are pretty uniform.
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Agreed with some of what you've said. Heard Sid's rant, it was rediculous, and was backed up very poorly.
- As you point out the fact what the L'Equipe predicted happened, actually happend proves nothing. They predicted what was at the very least, in the top 2 most likely outcome.
That said, there's lots of assumptions you are making in your post in the other direction:
- Why are you saying L'Equipe mentioned is baseless? As Sid did point out, they do have some history on this type of thing.
- Davis / White have been better for 2 years, agreed. You assume this alleged conspiracy only involves this years Olympics..........is it not plausible it could go back further leading to this result?
- Results are posted on line, and apparently one judges scores, are very very suspicious.
That said, doesn't really matter. Not sure if they got jobbed or not, if there was a consipiracy or not. All I know is the sport should simply become more transparent with it's juding, stop hidding the judges and it wall seem much more on the up and up and crap like this wouldn't get rumoured.