Jill Trenary used to put her flip in that part of the rink during practices, and during the actual competition, she would swap the flip for a toe loop, and some judges never knew the difference.
blue dog, that is absolutely true about Jill & the judges-she did it at US Nationals in Baltimore. I always thought it was rather dishonest.
I wasn't there to see practices, but I don't see where the dishonesty would be. She did a triple flip from an outside three turn at one end of the rink. Then she did a triple toe from a split jump and inside three at the other end. Much later in the program, she did a double toe from an inside three at the same end where she did the triple earlier but without the split jump.
I don't see how the judges would have been likely to mistake either the triple or the double toe for a flip.
If the flip was at the far end of the rink from the judges, they may have given her benefit of the doubt on the cleanness of the landing, since there was no instant replay.
Or do you mean she had been practicing triple flip in the short program and substituted a triple toe for that in the competition? Even so, if she used the inside three entry it's not likely a judge would have confused it for a flip.