NEW: French judge Jezabel Dabouis accused of rigging figure skating event against the United States to give France a gold medal.
Viewers were shocked when France's Laurence Fournier Beaudry & Guillaume Cizeron took gold over America's Madison Chock & Evan Bates.
Five of the nine judges gave Chock and Bates the top score, while the other four gave Beaudry and Cizeron the top score.
Thanks to the French judge, however, Beaudry and Cizeron were able to take gold, considering she gave Team USA a much lower score than the other judges.
"Not only did she judge the French pair 6.45 points higher than the mean, but she undervalued Chock/Bates by -7.19 — giving us a +13.64 delta favoring France over USA in the final score. This represents a staggering 6.37 standard deviation z-score difference across the event," reported SBNation.
"There has been a consistent pattern from Jézabel Dabois over multiple events of juicing scores for F. Beaudry/Cizeron in the ice dance, while filing low scores for their opponents," the outlet continued.
"When it comes to the Olympic Games, in which France won gold by just 1.43 points, there is no doubt that the scoring of Dabois was the key differentiator in deciding who won the event."
During an interview with CBS, Chock and Bates, who are married, called for more transparent judging.
This must be investigated.
@ABC7Jory They were cheated out of gold by French judge who skewed results for her country!! Why was this allowed. Who even wants to watch a sport where one biased judge can skew results?
Madison Chock of Redondo Beach and her partner Evan Bates just vaulted into 1st place in the Ice Dancing competition after their Free Dance at the Winter Olympics. Can they hold on for gold? 🏅
@nytimes@TheAthletic The French judge stole the gold medal for her country!!! This is BS. She scored her team so high that it skewed the results. Why compete if some judge can just score ridiculously high for her country and cause a team to win that did not deserve the gold.
From @TheAthletic: France's Guillaume Cizeron and Laurence Beaudry Fournier won gold in the figure skating ice dance competition at the Winter Olympics.
The pair beat popular American duo Madison Chock and Evan Bates. nyti.ms/4ts9tlP
Team USA's Madison Chock and Evan Bates won the silver medal in the Olympic figure skating ice dance competition.
It is their first career Olympic medal in ice dance.
@BradGalli Gold was stolen by French judge! She gave the French couple, who were not as good, an extremely high score, she was biased and stole the gold medal for her country!
@CBSSunday Hunting bear is disgusting! There are few wild bear. Why kill the few we have! Why have this segment? The singing and music is nice, but hunting bear is horrible! And then they shot one, who will suffer, without killing it. Horrible!!!
Koppell-give it up already!
@FaceTheNation So very tired of Margaret Brennan over talking and interrupting guests. I came back after leaving her show once before and discovered that nothing changed! She is biased and tiresome!!
UNHINGED LIBERAL woman says the Founding Fathers knew NOTHING.
"The FOUNDING FATHERS had less education than a modern 12-year-old!"
What’s your reaction to her?
Quite possibly one of the most beautiful Christmas messages I’ve seen yet. The #PrincessofWales and #PrincessCharlotte play a piano duet and Princess Catherine does a voiceover with a Christmas message. She always says exactly the right thing, and it’s always genuine and heartfelt. #MerryChristmas#RoyalFamily#TogetherAtChristmas
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Oh yeah, all that is true and valued.
@BuzziRobyn@unreMARKLEble Such hate—what is wrong with you.??? There is a huge difference, Catherine will be queen one day. She has to act a certain way. Meghan does not have to act anyway because she wanted out of the firm because of all the hypocrisy. Stop comparing them, there is no reason to.
@unreMARKLEble@Csl1898rb If he is going to be head of the church, he must be a believer and attend church, not hate his brother, etc. etc. This is ridiculous that the leader of the faith doesn’t bother going to church and leading others to the faith by example!!! He hates, this is a problem.
@Csl1898rb Idk where you read that but it’s not true. William was raised in the Church and will be the Head of the Church of England. Just because someone doesn’t go to church every Sunday doesn’t mean they don’t have a relationship with God.