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I mean in hindsight, they could've swapped in WeaPo and still likely would've won the team gold, but it's hard to know prior to the competition. They were gunning for the gold, so I'm not sure it's necessarily rude for them to rely on their far more dominant team. It sucks WeaPo missed out both years, but V/M were so dominant that I see the argument for including them to guarantee the 20 points.
They would have won gold still with Weapo with their placements at the olympics but had for example Chan not done nearly as well which could have been anticipated or DR placed a bit lower the gold could have been in jeopardy. It was all in hindsight but Weapo are really unlucky. They came seventh in two olympics in a row when they were getting better. Life isn't always fair. They were so so close to WGM ne year