So, the powerful federations must have also made Gracie 2 foot her 3-3 combo, pop her triple flip twice, step out of a triple lutz, and put both hands down on both her triple toe loops in the LP ?
Why are you making a straw man argument? The point is that Russian ladies have TES advantage on the field but could be vulnerable on PCS. So Russian federation with its collaborators gamed the scoring system to minimize impact of PCS and make TES the only meaningful determinant of competition results.
PCS is inflated and capped by the upper bound. That way if more mature skater skates well, their PCS advantage over young Russian girl is relatively small. But the differences in TES can be much larger. Point values have even been added to jumps to increase the disparity. This is all what I've been told by my very reliable source within ISU and something many of us already suspected.
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