I want to try to put some points together to get a clearer overview of why I feel so frustrated.
My main issue is with acknowledgement. Reality is a weird thing and our perceptions always make reality subjective, but in this very important time in history, it seems like we're in a world where somehow the fact that grass is green has become debatable.
So let's see if we can agree on these things.
1. Gaby and Guillaume have brought something extra to ice dancing that many people feel was urgently needed and has drawn in a lot of people who had lost interest in figure skating. After the technical and acrobatic developments of the past two decades, they added the artistry, beauty and dance innovation of the Duchesnays and Klimova/Ponomarenko.
2. In a surprising turn of events, the judges acknowledged this and catapulted Gaby and Guillaume to the top of the podium from the season 2014-15 onwards.
3. In 2016, Tessa and Scott decided to come back to competition. Not because they saw the new development and wanted to be part of it or felt that they had something to add to ice dancing, but because they had unfinished business competition-wise. They wanted revenge for the silver medal in Sochi and wanted to put more medals and records on their win-list: they love competition and wanted to feel that excitement again.
4. Technically, Tessa and Scott were superior to Gaby and Guillaume, but they never wanted to change the sport in any way. They excelled at what ice dancing at the beginning of the 21st century was: technical and acrobatic. The artistic side was back then less important, mainly conservative and not questioning the original idea that ice dancing should be ballroom dancing on ice. That concept of ice dancing fits them like a glove.
5. So here we have a clash: a new wind in ice dancing focusing more on artistic content brought on by two new kids on the block versus an established way of ice dancing - putting all the value on very highly skilled technical content and acrobatics - defended by two very celebrated veterans.
6. Add in the chauvinism. Tessa and Scott are Canadians. Canada is a humongous nation in figure skating. The Canadian fans, the Canadian fed and many pundits massively start downplaying the new wind that Gaby and Guillaume bring, and putting again all stress on technical merit.
7. Gaby and Guillaume are intimidated and make technical mistakes in the season 2016-17. At the same time they bring a very avant-garde free dance program that needs time to develop and to get accepted by the public.
8. The judges seem to be caught up in the fray and are picking sides, leaving all objectivity behind. The bottom is reached at Worlds, where very blatantly some judges simply ignore a near-fall from Scott, putting Tessa and Scott on top.
9. Any bias is denied. Tessa and Scott have won on merit alone, is the Canadian message.
10. At the start of the Olympic season, Gaby and Guillaume show a huge technical improvement, while keeping their artistic level and the influence of modern dance.
11. The judges acknowledge this by awarding them world record after world record. In the one head-to-head, Gaby and Guillaume are placed above Tessa and Scott.
12. Come Olympics. In the team event, Tessa and Scott get the same scores as before. Canada still wins gold. The medals of the team event are counted in Tessa's and Scott's personal medal count, even though it is blatantly obvious that this is ridiculous: the team event is a recent invention, individual skaters have no access to these medals, and only skaters from three countries can at the moment win such a medal. If you are born in any other country, you miss out on half of the medal options. So comparing medal counts across skaters while including the team medals is not an honest practice.
13. Short Dance. Tessa and Scott skate their very best and receive a massive score. Gaby and Guillaume are unable to skate anywhere near their best due to Gaby's dress being undone. Miraculously, Gaby and Guillaume lose only one level. Still it makes the gap between them and Tessa and Scott quite large.
14. Judges include a French and a Canadian judge. The latter is also the president of the Canadian fed, which hosted a nationals event that was so openly chauvinistic it resembled extreme-right festivities.
15. Free Dance. Both teams skate superbly. With a similar level of technicality, Gaby and Guillaume are again rewarded for the extra artistry they bring to the ice, and win the Free Dance competition. But not by enough to close the gap of the SD.
16. The French judge is not drawn to judge the FD. The Canadian judge however IS drawn. Even with the disaster of the dress in the SD and the large gap, calculations show that the fact that the Canadian judge is in the panel while the French judge isn't makes the difference between Gaby and Guillaume closing the SD gap and taking the gold and Tessa and Scott getting the upper hand.
17. The Canadian fed, Tessa and Scott themselves and of course the hordes of Canadian fans and pundits not only ignore but simply deny all of the above and claim that Tessa and Scott have won the gold on merit alone. They are claimed to be the best ice dancers ever and far above Gaby and Guillaume.
Which is about the only thing that really really annoys me, as it obviously distorts reality.
A bit ridiculous of me to expect anything else probably, because the whole of Western history shows that truth and honesty were never ever anything of any value. On the contrary.
That's a great picture though 
