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Originally Posted by Malcolm R
The CBC commentators also thought the scores were quite low for certain athletes' routines.
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| The other thing is that if a particular athlete doesn't get the medal he is "supposed" to get, he is almost portrayed as a loser. |
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Originally Posted by DavidJ
I'm glad to know that it wasn't just an American bias that made the scoring seem weird. It just highlights the inherent problems with any sport that has to be judged and the strange scoring system only makes it worse.
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Man, is there anyone more passionate about gymnastics than that guy?
| But 'greatest Olympian' implies something truly special, beyond a tally of how many medals have been won |
| Although it also seems quite unbelievable all of the WRs being broken. Could is just be the new suits? The pool depth? The new lane lines? Maybe. |
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Originally Posted by Michael_K_Sr
Did anyone see Bela Karolyi's hilarious cheerleading and celebration that was filmed as he watched the completion of Nastia Liukin's floor exercise last night with Bob Costas?
Man, is there anyone more passionate about gymnastics than that guy? |
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| Phelps just stole one from Cavic. The guy let up for a millisecond AT THE WALL, and Phelps touched 0.01 seconds sooner. Amazing. Cavic will be watching that race forever. He had it. But Phelps took it. |
| The new suits have decreased resistance and added buoyancy and have decreased times over average distances by almost a full second. |
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Originally Posted by Kevin Hewell
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| I watched the match. The whole thing stinks to me. At one point, he wins a point for escaping a hold but then the judge on the sideline says he went out of the ring and takes away his point and gives it to the other guy. Then the Italian guy goes waaay farther out of the ring than he did and nothing happens. Then they stop the match late to give the Swedish guy "treatment" although he doesn't appear hurt and the Italian guy looks gassed. And they are saying that if you protest an overrule the judges are supposed to look at video but they refused to do it. And both the finalists were rather unheralded, with the Italian guy also beating the favorite along the way. At best, it was an extremely poorly ref'ed match with the Swedish dude losing on a terrible call everyone agrees it was highly questionable. AT BEST. But I think it stinks pretty bad. Keep in mind this guy also lost in the gold medal match in 2004 in a match where it was later alleged that the coach was giving odd signals to the ref and that the ref was bribed. I don't know enough about Greco-Roman wrestling and the supposed corruption in the ranks of judges to say for sure. But I could see why the guy might be really pissed, and why his actions were more a necessary public protest than a hissy fit. |
| I'm still having a problem with NBC counting total medals as the way to determine who is first on the medals table. |
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Originally Posted by billjames
why does badmitten gold count the same as swimming?
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Originally Posted by billjames
why does badmitten gold count the same as swimming?
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Originally Posted by Holadem
Marianne, do you have an alternative way of counting? I supposed you would favor some kind of coefficient/weight system? Which then begs the question, exactly how many bronze and silver medals are worth a gold one? I don't imagine you will come up with something that is NOT arbitrary.
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| Which then begs the question, exactly how many bronze and silver medals are worth a gold one? |
| anyone see that game called 'handball'? where did that come from? (no its not the one like racketball) |
| why does badmitten gold count the same as swimming? |
| I don't think it is arbitrary to count total golds first, then silvers, then bronzes. |
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Originally Posted by Kevin Hewell
What's the deal with the Swedish wrestler throwing down his bronze medal?
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