wallylutz, I think the snarky point is that V&M actually won at 4CC's 2012 with Judy Blumberg on the panel, so clearly she didn't have any bad effect on their results, particularly as it was D&W at that event that had a spin and their twizzle down leveled in the FD by the tech panel. If Judy were somehow able to fix results on a tech panel, you'd think she would have done something about that.
http://www.isuresults.com/results/fc2012/SEG007OF.HTM
At the risk of opening a bigger can of worms, here goes nothing. If you click on the link you provided, you will notice two things. 1) Judy Blumberg wasn't the tech caller and there were 3 people on the tech panel. 2) The tech caller of the event was a Canadian, not Blumberg. Horror, I know. So the downgrades called for D/W in that event wouldn't have come from Blumberg in the first place, it was Zukiwsky's call. Even if the downgrades went into a review process, there was still the controller who was British. We simply didn't know how they interacted so we can only state the facts and the fact is Blumberg was not the tech caller, rather it was someone else who happened to be a Canadian.
There is a lot of conflating of conspiracy theories about past dance results with the reported conspiracy for 2014 Sochi Olympics going on in this thread. The L'equipe article makes no mention of either Shawn Rettstatt or Judy Blumberg, and Judy is not on the Sochi panel in any case, and efforts to accuse either of cheating is pretty low, but especially Judy, since she isn't even here.
For the record, I am not accusing anyone is Sochi, want to make that clear.
News flash: In any event, looking at any team's results, one judge will have that team lower than other judges. That's how arithmetic works. (Also 50% of doctors graduated in the bottom of their class.) Furthermore, since we have no way to tell which judge is low in any case, and cannot trace the judge's grades down through the protocols to know whether the low judge was low for every skater or was suspiciously high for Russia, or France, or Italy, or the USA, the smearing of Rettstatt as the low grading judge at the GPF is also unfounded.
I don't know but Matt K made a case here : http://www.goldenskate.com/forum/sh...and-Prix-Final&p=802789&viewfull=1#post802789
People can read for themselves and draw their own conclusion, I am going to refrain from commenting on the merit of this case.
That said, the ISU should investigate these charges, although it will be hard to do if the anonymous coach does not come forward and explain how he knows these things. My guess is that it is Morozov (I&K's coach), and given my opinion of Morozov, I might have a problem believing him. He would be the guy who might have a grudge at the Russian fed, since B&S are Russia's number one, and not his students I&K.
The other possibility would be Zhulin, B&S's coach, and it doesn't seem like his style, nor would it be to his advantage to trash the Russian fed.
But really, why would the federation officials notify any coaches of the cheating and/or politicking they plan to do? That is what puzzles me.
I tend to agree with you here that the source may well be Morozov but let me state again this is only speculation. As for the last part of your question, I can tell you in my own experience from both skating and corporate world that leaks happen more often than people realize. In many instance, they are supposed to be well guarded secrets but people talk and sometimes, it's quite easy to overhear something in a large organization. Surprisingly, some of the people with the most inside information are low ranking clerks, attendants or secretaries. The big shots tend to ignore these people as background noises and these people act subservient anyway. If you are smart, and want to know some secrets, you befriend those secretaries or receptionists or attendants since they also handle the agenda, calendar or appointments of the big shots so they filter through a lot of information. And they aren't dumb, what they can't hear, they deduce and when you put 1 + 1 together, they figure out a lot of things on their own. And why these people talk? Well, very often they are treated like crap by the big shots or as though they are servants. So they often have a beef against those big shots and they tend to be older women. Women in an office = chat box. A womanizer and naturally seductive guy like Morozov, boy, if he wants to know something, I bet he got his own inside sources in a lot of places. What better way to further his own agenda with a calculated leak?