What happened to the old “throw out the high. Throw out the low” that was used in skating scores to neutral partisan judges?
I noted that the low score might not have mattered.. But it the French judge had scored fairly, that score may not have been the lowest. That would have won it for the US. Also whose to say the French judge didn’t influence the other judges? Or at least one? In my experience judges of all types tend to stick together.