I don't believe that many people ever believed I/k surpassed b/s. Anyway I'd they did because of 2012 worlds it had to have erased because of the gp of 2012 and b/s total complete lock on Russian nationals. They are totally unbeatable at Russian nationals! B/s have never lost a SD or fd and almost all the elites of Russian figure skating hate I/k. Zhulin and tarasova actively campaign against them. They are such losers in the Russian skating world that kustarova is actually a main consultant to them now. It's more likely that I/k won't be in Sochi than he shibutanis. The shibutanis fan of course get their levels back up. That's their main problem now - levels.