it doesn't help when the commentators are all biased. they just want some controversies. if you listen to some other countries commentators, the story maybe completely different.
My wife brought up a good idea. If you're gonna have a tiebreaker, make them settle it on the apparatus. Send them back to the bars to do the routine again. Course it still puts it in the hands of the judges, but it'll make them truly earn that medal.
so you admit china hasn't deserved the medals they have gotten. the silver today nor the bronze in the vault yesterday (while falling down!). i'm glad we finally agree.
nah, just get a new system. who knows, maybe they get injured if they go again with all the pressure. the current system is ****.
their job is not to be influenced by the people in the crowd. their job is to determine who did the best routine.
It's a BS system and everyone knows it.. Even the commentators from other countries, and if they don't think it is a flawed system, they clearly never heard of a tie breaker, or the fact that another person had the same exact score as 1st place and did not get the proper respect. It doesn;t matter if you are biased or not, it is clearly a flawed system.
if you read all my posts in the previous days, i have said repeatedly, that the scores are questionable. but all of the problems are created by the new scoring system. based on the current scoring system, i believe the Chinese won.
China deserved the medals because they won the match, fair and square...until something comes up otherwise to disprove that, they deserved it.
so is balance beam still to come on some other day? are johnson and liukin in it? have they already taken .2 off of liukin's routine?
Something did come up. Should I show you the video of the girl yesterday landing on her knees and still winning the bronze in the vault over several others who landed, you know, on their feet?
Tell me how someone who lands on their knees can beat anyone who lands on their feet in the vault where the whole purpose is to flip and land on your feet.
Ziert, in his analysis, noted that the Chinese team performed more difficult routines than the American gymnasts, giving them an A-score advantage of between 1.3 and 2.0 points before the competition even began. He also noted that Sacramone's overall marks in the team finals were 1.15 points lower than her total for the qualifying round, and that even if she had hit her routines and repeated her scores from preliminaries, the USA team would still have finished with an approximate 1.35 deficit to the Chinese.[30] Yoculan corroborated this analysis, noting on the night of team finals, "In the end, it was not the falls or mistakes of the U.S. team members that cost them the gold. It was the superior level of difficulty that the Chinese team had over the U.S. team. With this new scoring system in place, the team with more difficulty going in has more room for error. The Chinese team had over 2 points more in difficulty than the U.S. team. This advantage is hard to overcome.
