Here are two bits of information, one from another forum member supporting my view and another from usatoday.com . I think this is more than enough to show that I have done my homework. I just think there should be more representation from the Eastern world to make the competitions more equitable, since there were none at Worlds. I was not sarcastic in my post and will not be in this one either.
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The idea of banning multiple former soviet countries from judging is gaining steam because if a judge is from ukraine its Russia 2 if a judge is from Estonia it's Russia 2. South Korea is actively promoting this thinking that all former soviet countries are just russia and isu has a rule that one country can't provide more than one judge and Russia is providing 15 according to South Korea and allies. Eastern Ukraine is heavily Russian and connections
Taken from http://www.usatoday.com/story/sport...-olympics-adelina-sotnikova-yuna-kim/5680717/
The nine-person panel for the Olympic women's long program included judges from four former Soviet bloc nations -- Russia, Ukraine, Estonia and Slovakia -- as well as France, which conspired with Russia for the Salt Lake City pairs judging scandal in 2002.
The Ukrainian judge, Yuri Balkov, was suspended for one year when he was tape-recorded trying to fix the ice dancing competition at the 1998 Nagano Olympics. The Russian judge, Alla Shekhovtseva, is married to the powerful general director of the Russian figure skating federation, Valentin Piseev.
Ooh maybe there was conspiracy. Did South Korea file the official complaint?