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Originally Posted by craigwd
Here's the rub though, the judges are only anonymous to the public right now. Every score can be matched up by the officials.
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Your explanations were helpful, and I'm not sure who should have won gold or silver based on what I saw this time, and its impossible to see if there were judging alliances since we are no longer able to see which judges did what. I do take issue with hiding the judges to the public, which the ISU did because of the 2002 games' fiasco.
The judging in 2002 shows there were blocks of judges based on alliances, its pretty hard to argue it was mere coincidence. Russia, China, Poland, Ukraine, and the "swing" France for Russia with Canada, US, Germany, and Japan for the Canadians? Its just coincidence it was NATO vs. the Eastern Block? And a Frenchmen who pulled an Italian and picked the wrong side AND confessed? Canada voting Canada and Russia voting Russia by itself should be enough evidence that the judges are biased and allowed to be so by the ISU.
Tell me that kind of obvious voting block has changed based on results.