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THIS! I'm not sure they'd care all that much about fixing figure skating since they likely won't have a legit contender, but the Russian Oly team will most definitely get screwed out of a bunch of medals in 2018 as a result of Sochi. Anyone who remembers what happened at the 2002 World Cup can tell you South Korea is MORE than capable of fixing competitions should they wish to.
Oh they will care very much about the figure skating, regardless if they have contenders or not. I predict that is where Team Russia will get hit hardest, and not just in the ladies event. I would laugh outloud if something like say Duhamel & Radford or Sui & Han or Volosozhar & Massot (well unless they end up even better than expected) beat a totally clean Volosozhar & Trankov, but if there is one place that might happen it would be the next Games in Korea. I agree with the above posters there will be payback to Russia felt at those Games, but strongly disagree that will mostly be outside the figure skating venue. It will probably indeed extend beyond the figure skating venue, but the figure skating venue is when it will be most felt. The Russian figure skating team (who are typically arrogant and have an inflated view of the scores and placements they deserve to begin with) will need some pain killers to get through the aggravation they will experience that week.