I just picked this up from ESPN's Page 2, and I rescind my previous remarks - I didn't know there was an alternate judge!!

THUMBS UP ... for the controversy with the
French and Russian judges. Nothing beats a good
controversy with a happy ending, even if they
copped out by giving both the Canadian team and the
Russians gold medals. Why not remove the French
judge, institute the alternate judge's marks,
reconfigure the scoring and see who wins. Isn't that
why they have alternate judges? This really peeved
me for some reason.