After seeing both competitions, I believe that the Canadian team should have won. But I do understand the pressure that the judges had on them to vote for the Russians after a 40 gold streak. Don't get me wrong, I am not justifying what they did, I'm just saying that I understand why it happened. As to how to resolve this-you got me. You always run into problems when you try to make objective something that is so subjective. Yes, I know that the technical aspect of what skaters do is objective (did they fall? were their landings perfect?), but the aspect of "Presentation" is a very subjective judgement. I don't know that I feel that the gold should be taken away from the Russians, but if there is proof that a judge was pressured to vote one way or another, I feel that that judge should be banned for life from ever judging again.
