Psssst... Remember We Gotta Give Them the Gold

Meryl Davis and Charlie White will become Olympic Champions in Sochi.  Unless they fall flat on their faces the judges will give them ridiculously high scores and turn a blind eye even if they make visible mistakes.  In December Meryl and Charlie won their fifth consecutive Grand Prix Final title despite making obvious errors in the Finnsteps and getting credit for it, they even received top levels with great GOE on obvious errors.
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He even almost bumped into Meryl.

Here is the link and an excerpt to an expert blog called Ice Dance Analysts that had a closer look on the Finnsteps.

http://icedanceanalysts.blogspot.tw/2014/01/more-on-finnstep-key-points-look-back.html

Davis/White received credit for this key point, but it looks like this was a close call as Davis’s exit edge for this choctaw was a little flat/barely an inside edge and thus not a clear inside edge (again, this is not the best angle). She quickly leans to produce the inside edge which is aided by the movement of the free leg back and to the right, but this is after the blade placement (and remember that the blade placement is very important in the assessment of key points).

Davis/White received credit for this key point, but Davis appears to place her blade on a flat rather than a clear outside edge for the exit edge of the choctaw. With another technical panel they might not have received credit for this key point. (Unfortunately White's blade is obscured by Davis's boot, but if one partner does not meet the criteria, the team does not receive credit for the key point).

This was their twizzle attempt in the SD

Charlie messed up on the entrance into the first set and went out of sync with Meryl.  He even almost bump into Meryl.

Slow motion of the first set

Screen cap, they were almost 180 degrees out of sync.  That's like, as out of sync as you can get.

For this element, Meryl and Charlie received a level 4 with three judges giving a grade of execution of +3.

After the SD, to paraphrase a previous article, every person, their moms and their cats thought they should not have been placed first.  Even Meryl herself agreed after their marks came up in the Kiss & Cry area.  

Here is the FD

Not as bad as the SD

But definitely flawed to receive awesome scores of the element

Again, very flawed execution in synchronization

Charlie also wobbled out of his exit and lost unison with Meryl

For their FD twizzles, they received level 4 again with two judges handing out +3s and the rest +2s in grade of execution.

When other couples make obvious errors, the judges no holds barred would mark them down.  With Meryl and Charlie, not gonna happen because we gotta give them the Gold.  Using the words of one of their fans when they thought the Russian dance couple Ekaterina Bobrova and Dmitri Soloviev were over marked in Rostelcom Cup over Canadians Kaitlyn Weaver and Andrew Poje, how do couples wake up every morning and train when they know even if they did their very best and outskate their competitors, they will never be allowed to score over them even with visible flaws.

How indeed.