You're right. This is so stupid. I give up...I don't care anymore, I'm sorry I insulted you. I just don't understand the whole thing anyway....and I'll tell you this...I will not watch ANYMORE of the Olympics because it makes NORMAL people like you and me fight with each other and say things we wouldn't normally say...
Again...I'm sorry. And I'm not being sarcastic, I'm being honest. I don't understand why they even USE the scoring system in the FIRST place when it doesn't matter.....
I'm going back to football, baseball and NASCAR ...at least there, when a team SCORES or a car comes across the finish line, YOU KNOW WHO WON.
I hope we can just put this aside. Normally, with medicine, I'm not like this. :-)
You like football and NASCAR?! How could we fight (I'm not into baseball, too slow). You should check out the women's hockey, team USA kicks major butt. Don't poopoo the whole Olympics over one piece of stupidity. Remember the Olympics allows each sport's federation to run it's own thing. This is the fault of the ISU, collusion or not it's a stupid thing. Like one of the guests on MSNBC said today, this thing happens all the time in figure skating, it just usually doesn't happen in the Olympics. There's still lots of great sports going on in Utah, catch some curling if you can, it's actually a pretty cool sport, still has gentleman rules (like admitting defeat, or accepting a probable score without forcing a measurement), definitely increases one's confidence in the human spirit and value of sports.
Good luck. Peace.