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- Jan 25, 2013
I liked it up until the point where the winner did become obvious haha.
LOL, the winner and standings were obvious before the final day of events.
Russia 47 points (ice dance was likely 8 points, ladies was likely 8+ points with Lip over Osmond/Marchei, men was likely 7+ points with Plu over Parkinson): minimum 70 points.
Canada 41 points: with those minimum scores that Russia would have achieved, to beat Russia, they would have needed to win all 3 events to surpass Russia with 71 points. Reynolds was a surprise and should have won the men, but no way Osmond would win women's or V/M would win ice dance if D/W skated clean.
USA 34 points: to beat Canada, with D/W likely 1st and V/M likely 2nd in dance, they would have had to gain 7 points (to lead Canada, 6 points to tie) in ladies/men -- which only could have happened if Gracie 1st+Osmond 5th and if Reynolds placed 4th+Jason placed 1st in the team FS (Reynolds was guaranteed to be above Parkinson).
The only nailbiter was whether Japan or Italy would be 4th.