Not true. NBC showed it live and repeated it a few times. They have two former figure skaters, including Gold Medalist Scott Hamilton as commentators. Both said the error would not affect their scores. I don't know what the CBC showed.

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>I heard yesterday from the Dutch commentator (she was a former Olympic Figure Skater) that the (North-)American Media only showed the error that the Russians made and didn't show the Error the Canadians made at the end of the Short Program. Normally they should have ended 4th during that event because of the error. Because they were the World Champions they received better marks and came in 2nd.
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>They were the Best in the second event and it would compile to these scores:
>(Short program gives half ranking points)
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>Rus1: 0.5 + 2 = 2.5
>Can : 2.0 + 1 = 3.0
>Chn : 1.0 + 3 = 4.0
>Rus2: 1.5 + 4 = 5.5
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>I really don't care who wins the Gold but I think it is bad that the Media can display a one-sided view which makes a difference at the end.
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>I think that a lot of the Jury scores in Figure Skating are based on Merits not on the actual performance at that time.
>If you look at the scores of the 2 Compulsory Dances of the Skatedancing event, you will see that only rank 11 and 12 are switched (out of 24 pairs)
>I leave the conclusions up to you.