Jeff Gatie
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The achilles guy was the other Chinese couple. The reason the Chinese couple you speak of came in second was three fold. One, their short program score was high, putting them within shooting distance of a medal. Second, the fall, while atrocious, was only counted as a fall. The fact it was a fall on a throw quad, the most difficult throw attemtped, gave them points just for the attempt and throw, but none for the revolutions and the landing (subjective, but certainly within the rules). Third, they are allowed to resume a program at the moment the fall happened with no penalty (even though it took a long time to decide if she should continue) and the rest of their performance was relatively flawless.
The american couple did get points for the difficult element (I forgot what it was) but their short program was lacking and the rest of their free skate was rife with mistakes.