Will other nations take Olympic gymnastics seriously now???

[Becoming]

There all all kinds of minute details the judges are forced to deduct for (leg postioin, hand position, motion changes, etc)... Not you nor I or anyone in the audience really knows what a score should be - something might like look fine to us - yet be loaded with deductions -

that said - their scoring is a farce and so are the judges - too many incidencts all in one games - and then caving to the crowd and changing a score? that is really going to help your credibility...

none of it was any of the athletes faults tho...

 

[AAP]

Bush fucked up the Olympics.


wait.. is this the right thread?

 

[WODIN]

LMAO @ AAP!

Any olympic sport that requires subjective judging should be eliminated from the games.

 

[MAX 300]

Not if it involves sexy girls in skintight outfits.

 

[RottenWillow]

The judges scores beared little relation to the quality of gymnastics.

The Italian should have rec'd a 8.8

Russian..............................8.4

Paul Hamm...........................8.1

Judging anomalies are not new, not even close. I've been to God knows how many comps, two World Championships, and the '96 Olympic all around finals. It's just part of the sport, doesnt happen all the time, but not real rare either.


Did you mean to type 9.8, 9.4, 9.1?

Nemov's exercise received a starting score of 10, I saw no visible errors while on the bar, with a single step forward on the landing, which is a .20 deduction. Considering he completed at least 2 skills that had never been done before, I think a fair score would be 9.80. He was still a 10 until he hit the mat. His adjusted score though was still lower than that. The Italian's exercise was a very different style, comparatively easier skills, but more flamboyant and with a stuck landing. I would have scored him in the high 9.8 range. Paul's routine was very clean, good landing, but admittedly less impressive than the other guys. I would have put him in the high 9.7 range. So I had it, a)Italy-gold, b)Russia-Silver, c)US-Bronze

At some point though scoring does become subjective. Placements become a matter of personal taste among the judges when two or more performances are both very clean.

 

[AristotleBC]

Hypercapitalism is pretty sick really.

Do you have a thing about blaming government for every single thing in this world that you dislike or what?

 

[The Terminator]

LMAO @ AAP!

Any olympic sport that requires subjective judging should be eliminated from the games.

Agreed (though thout those tight girls are fun to watch )

 

[Testosterone boy]

Do you have a thing about blaming government for every single thing in this world that you dislike or what?

How much did it cost our government for you to log out, log in , and type that?

 

[Testosterone boy]

what? hello? none of them even a 9.0? who else in the world could do better than they did?

They DO NOT give 9's or 10's anymore.

So a 8.8 is really a 9.8 under the old judging.

Hey....I'm the one who was upset enough to make a thread.

 

[RottenWillow]

They DO NOT give 9's or 10's anymore.

Please go back and read post #15.

and you're confusing your numbers a little. Olympic judges didnt give any 9.9's or 10's. However, 9.0 to 9.5 are very common. In fact no one in men's or women's with single or aggregrate scores below 9.5 won any medals.