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I've spent enough time debating you and the point is this:

I have my opinion, you have yours. You want to say you win because you "know more" than I do? Go ahead, if that makes you happy. As a matter of fact, I'll put in bold letters so that you can pat yourself on the back for being the brains of this "Olympic Skating Controversy". Is that what you want? It's your way or the highway, correct? Just to get it over with, to let you have your way and make you look like you won, here it is:

BY DEFAULT, DICOSTU WINS THE DEBATE OF WHO WON THE GOLD MEDAL IN THE OLYMPIC PAIRS SKATING. HE COMES TO THIS CONCLUSION BASED ON HIS "RATING" OF THE TECHNICAL AND ARTISTIC SCORES. HOWEVER, EVEN TODAY THE FRENCH JUDGE IS NOW ADMITTING SHE WAS "PRESSURED" AND "MANIPULATED" IN THIS COMPETITION TO VOTE ONE WAY OR THE OTHER. BUT THAT DOES NOT MATTER, DOES IT?

There. Happy now? I'm not arguing with you anymore. I don't CARE what you think. If you post to me, I won't post back. It's not that I'm not able to debate you, I just get tired of the same things being said over and over and over.

Let the IOC figure it out...and apparantly, they will. Whether or not they change the results, which probably will never happen, this has managed to put a "black eye" on the Olympics and it is NOT something that will go away and never be talked about again, as you "think". You're off base with that one. As a matter of fact, that's all ANYONE is talking about right now.

But like I said, YOU WIN. That's all you wanted, so I give it to you.

But just like the Gold medal, it doesn't matter. It's just a game.

Wow do you ever need to calm down. All the way through this you've been insulting, short tempered and high strung. All I've tried to do is show that it is possible, not necessarily likely or even factual merely POSSIBLE, that the Russians could have won legitimately. Meanwhile you're running around making declarative statements on what people were thinking and not tolerating even the slightest hint that this might not have been a fix. You've called me "Mr. Know it All" for suggesting other possible thoughts that might have been going through the judges head, meanwhile stating boldly what they were thinking. You acted like it was a startling revelation when I said for the 12th time that I thought the Russian long program was better, then stated that invalidated my position acting like I'd been hiding it, even though I've been completely honest about and in fact my opinion was the basis for the whole thing. My entire arguement has been that if 5 judges thought like me the Russians win fare and square. But you don't care.

I've tried to be civil through this entire thread except for one post which wasn't directed at you and I apologized for when I learned I had misinterpreted the post it was directed towards. It's not my fault you're being shrill and unreasonable. Maybe if you presented something based on logic instead of telepathy I could actually debate your points. But statements on what the judges WERE thinking cannot be debated.