Do the team figure skating scores reset for the finals, or do they carry through? If it's the latter, the US is probably out of contention for anything better than bronze...
Just checked, and they carry thru. At this point Russia is guaranteed at least a silver, Canada is the only other team that can win gold, and the US, Italy, and Japan are all fighting for bronze with a theoretical chance of silver. Whoever designed the scoring system was stupid. It all but eliminates any chance for drama. At the very least, the free skate programs should have been scored 10-8-6-4-2 instead of 10-9-8-7-6 if they weren't going to simply add together the raw scores from each event. With that simple change, even tho the situation would still be heavily in favor of Russia getting the gold, Canada the silver, and the US leading Italy in the race for bronze, even Japan would theoretically still have a shot at gold right now with three events left to go of the eight.
