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Those are the allegations. But you can't just assume the DID happen. What I'm trying to present here is a possible completely legitimate reason why the Russians could have won. This is easy for me because I really didn't like the Canadian performance. While it was technically very well done it did not appear as challenging (and all the FS "experts" say the Russian routine had a higher difficulty rating) and was not (to me) as asthetically pleasing. I am presenting why I, were I a judge at that even, would have scored the Russians higher and proudly voted them for the gold. In presenting why 1 person, without collusion or scandal, could make such a decision I'm trying to help show how 5 of 9 judges could. There's a general assumption on these threads that because the judges didn't agree with you that must mean it was fixed. I'm presenting the apparently shocking possibility that maybe the judges honestly don't agree with you. Unlike FS judges I'm not just throwing out a couple of numbers, I'm giving you explicit reasons why I felt the Russians were better. You might not agree with them but that's not the goal. The goal is to show that there isn't automatically collusion just because the judges don't agree with the audience. There still could have been collusion, I'm not ruling it out. I'm saying the rankings in themselves do not prove it was fixed.

"This is easy for me because I really didn't like the Canadian performance."

And therein lies the proof we all needed to show why you think the Russians should have won it...you didn't like the Canadian performance, therefore, the Russians deserved to win. That's IT. All your gobbely gook about "technically better" and "retreads" is just a bunch of malarky.