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Originally Posted by Cleveland Steam Whistle
The point I was making about the potential conspiracy going back further would not be proven impossible by the fact Davis and White beat them each time for the past 2 years. That was my point, you assume the same judges aren't at those previous events, when in fact many were. In fact, one judge that was at these Olympics has apparently been a judge at every event when the two couples went head to head and Virtue/Moire had incurred lower than would have been expected scores. Is this the same judge? We don't know because the sport lacks transperancy. By the looks of it, if you wanted to fix this sport at the Olympics, the best way to do it would be to start well before, so the results at the event you are trying to fix are "out of the blue".
Again, I don't really know what to believe. Davis/White looked really good at what they do, as did Moire/Virtue, I'm certainly not qualified to say who should have one. What i do know is the sport has set its self up to be questioned given the way they operate, and judging transparency should be a required minimum of any judged sport if for no other reason to hold judges to the accountability of knowing people will be able to judge what they did. Kind of like how people on here say a lot of crap they wouldn't say if people knew their true identity.
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Here's the rub though, the judges are only anonymous to the public right now. Every score can be matched up by the officials.
Part of Code of Points was deliberately making sure that each mark couldn't be traced to a single person at the time. It prevented people from pointing fingers at a person right on the spot or allowed the judge to give a score without having a federation pressuring them to mark a certain way. They are anonymous on the score sheet. They are not anonymous to the ISU because they need to be able to track how each judge has been voting over a period of time (again for transparency). This just prevent immediate witch hunts.
There is a way to lodge a complaint as well with the ISU.
As for my Flames fan beef, I referring to arm chair referees who watch the sport for an hour every 4 years and suddenly become "experts", kind of like Seixero who keeps bringing up Petri Kokko, the supposed "inventor" of the Finnstep. Kokko is pretty much another athlete who has an opinion, much like ours. The Finnstep was kind of based upon a dance he did 20 years ago but to say he's an expert on today's component is wrong.