The French judge was doing it all season and it was discussed. Along with the US judge. I don't recall your posts discussing that though? Maybe you could link to them? I do recall you going to great lengths explaining why the scoring at GPF was correct but not so much about the French judge I will just let that say what I think is enough on the topic.
But I still don't understand how you think his numbers in that article make any sense whatsoever. The math just doesn't support it. Just looking at the FD (because you consider the SD to even out). The Canadian just was the lowest score on ONLY THREE areas of the FD: she gave them +2 on Twizzles (when all others gave +3) so that was thrown out, and she gave them two 9.75 in Performance and Interpretation when all others gave 10 (so those those were thrown out). The end result for those three sections was that P/C received 100% possible marks with 1.80 in GOE for twizzles and 10's in both Interpretation and Perfomance so mathematically it's more than insignificant. In all other areas she gave either the same lowest mark as at least one other judge OR sometimes, believe it or not, higher GOE than some other judges.
Math doesn't lie. Again, sorry to derail but I keep reading this theme building here and it's just so incorrect something needed to be said.
Argue they lost because her dress broke causing her to lose balance whenever she twizzled, fair enough if one believes that because it's clear the majority of the judges wanted them to win. But you cannot argue they lost because of the Canadian judge. The math just proves that wrong everytime.
No we didn't discuss the FRA judge, nor the SD by the way because we knew what would happenned : both countries would score their teams higher. And in the SD it did balanced out like I said. So there was no point in saying "the FRA judge overscored them or the CAN judge underscored them", because at least it was enough of a balance to neglect it. I'm not going to be a hypocrite on that one for sure.
We're also not really arguing the SD incident which was unfortunate on so many levels, nor V/M performances, who objectively might have skated their best ever. That is not our point.
The main issue is in the scoring of the FD. We knew again what was going to happen because you could not have a more lenient panel for the Canadians. We just said said that if there was a FRA judge here, or at least no CAN judge, those little points would have make a difference.
Of course if you took away the CAN judge and reduce it to 8 judges, the French would have won. And if you took both FRA and CAN judge away from both SD and FD, same case scenario. If the lowest mark changes, a higher mark is taken as the lowest (if there isn't the same one of course) and the mean changes. These little differences would have had another outcome, that's where it's frustrating.
Moreover, a CAN judge, president of the federation acting like there was no conflict of interest whatsoever is the most baffling. The double standard is unbelievable. Never in a million years France would have escaped that, especially with the legion of skating fans in Canada. And I'm not talking about a +4 point jump in a week for the FD too because if it was P/C's case, you'd never hear the end of it. Not saying V/M doesn't deserve it, but that it's legitimate that we ask ourselves some questions of course.
EDIT : CAS, please understand that it's not my point to attack you, or be blinded or anything in that line whatsoever of course. It's obviously not easy to always be objective, but it surely isn't when you're given evidence in that sense either. Yes, V/M in the FD did have the panel on their side that one time. Yes it might have made all the difference. We're not saying that they are not deserving at all, though, that's for sure. It would be nice though to not have those situations at the Olympics ever again.