Nobody was "blocked internationally". They all had obvious errors and narrowly missed the podium. You can argue increments either way (you always can with the IJS any time you look under the hood), but that's the definition of a close result.Plus, your whole post.
When one continues to ignore the realities of international cooperative judging and chooses to be ''Switzerland'' versus calling a spade a spade, all I can say is, ...call me when the kicks in.
Long before your arrival on Golden Skate, CG, many of us fought to legitimize Chan, Osmond, D&R, Daleman and others, as they were criticized on GS and judged as non-players. Fast forward to today and accepting a pewter when some have been blocked internationally, has me concerned.
As anyone familiar with my commentary here would have seen, I have discussed the political aspects of judging quite extensively. But the fact that ISU judging has obvious flaws or quirks (that can apply in favour or against our skaters, situationally) doesn't mean that any time somebody doesn't do well it was unfair judging, which frequently seems to be your position. If an up-and-coming team with minimal international reputation wants to win a medal in ice dance, then they shouldn't mess up their twizzles.
I don't have time for such arguments anymore than I had that poster who came in here complaining about the technical calling in Lake Placid supposedly preemptively protecting Stephen Gogolev by unjustly UR'ing Gleb Lutfullin's triple Axel. One can, of course, fairly debate whether certain technical calls were correct in both cases, without diving off the deep end.