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Seeing as how the results are predetermined.
The judging sucks donkey balls.
The judging sucks donkey balls.
Will other nations take Olympic gymnastics seriously now???
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Hypercapitalism is pretty sick really.
I thought the womens gynamstics were fun to watch 
The Terminator said:I thought the womens gynamstics were fun to watch
Yeah. I wish I had watched more of the Olympics. Tonight is the first night I've watched. I have to really appreciate what they can do, all the hard work that goes into it. Gymnasts are incredible. How the hell can they jump and flip like that? And all male gymnasts have a great build. I thought the Russian showed a lot of grace and class when it appeared obvious that he should have won a medal, but 2 judges gave him a low score.
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I've never seen anything like that episode with the russian and the crowd. they simply weren't having it. crazy
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A Russian bloke by the name of Alexei Nemov (or such) did a brilliant number with very easily a 10.0 start value, made no real mistake, then landed and had to balance himself with 1 foot behind him. Then he got something like a 9.700 or so.
It was definately too low. So the whole crowd stood up, starting waving their hands, booing, screaming, for actually something like 15 minutes. The Russian coach was encouraging them too. there were only a few Russians in the crowd it was mostly Greeks protesting. All the officials walked around talking to one another and American Paul Hamm was up next but was told to wait until this situation had calmed down.
All this time the Russian athlete just sat down in silence, probably afraid to be DQ'ed for causing a scene.
They finally increased the Russian's score, but it did not change his placement he was still fifth. Italian Igor Agassi (bear with me here) deservedly won with an amazing feat and Hamm took the silver.
Altogether the scoring in gymnastics seemed to make very little sense, there's a huge document of detailed laid out rules of what gives you what score and what gives you what penalty but still the scores given were rather unpredictable. Altogether I dont think it changed the results much though, the italian deserved to win, the american girls deserved the nation title, and catalina ponor of rumania deserved the individual titles she got.
It was definately too low. So the whole crowd stood up, starting waving their hands, booing, screaming, for actually something like 15 minutes. The Russian coach was encouraging them too. there were only a few Russians in the crowd it was mostly Greeks protesting. All the officials walked around talking to one another and American Paul Hamm was up next but was told to wait until this situation had calmed down.
All this time the Russian athlete just sat down in silence, probably afraid to be DQ'ed for causing a scene.
They finally increased the Russian's score, but it did not change his placement he was still fifth. Italian Igor Agassi (bear with me here) deservedly won with an amazing feat and Hamm took the silver.
Altogether the scoring in gymnastics seemed to make very little sense, there's a huge document of detailed laid out rules of what gives you what score and what gives you what penalty but still the scores given were rather unpredictable. Altogether I dont think it changed the results much though, the italian deserved to win, the american girls deserved the nation title, and catalina ponor of rumania deserved the individual titles she got.
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The judges scores beared little relation to the quality of gymnastics.MAX 300 said:
The Italian should have rec'd a 8.8
Russian..............................8.4
Paul Hamm...........................8.1
The Italian put on an alien acrobatic show. The Russian defied descrription. The American was very solid but did nothing spectacular by Olympic high bar standards.
It saddened me and may lower the popularity of Olympic gymnastics in other countries. Perhaps it was a fluke though.
Poilitics seems to have infiltrated the Olympics heavily this year.
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