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Originally Posted by Steve_Tk
So no one is talking about Luiken getting the EXACT same score as the chinese gymnast, but she got the silver in the Uneven bars?
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| man, the coach for that US female pole vaulter (silver medalist) is a total douche |
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Originally Posted by Malcolm R
This didn't bother me too much as there seemed to be clearly established protocols for breaking the tie. I forget exactly how they explained it, but it sounded logical and was better than simply flipping a coin.
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Originally Posted by EricW
man, the coach for that US female pole vaulter (silver medalist) is a total douche... one thing to say stuff like that in private, another to say it in front of a 100 million people...
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) and where he was coming from. Some of the best coaches can obviously be demanding hard-a$$es. That is not always easy to turn off. She was obviously upset and he was trying to explain what went wrong. To me his ending comments were trying to say that the silver isn't exactly "chopped liver."
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Originally Posted by DavidJ
I posted an Si article on the previous page that goes into some detail on the matter. It is a pretty crazy tiebreaking system and its fairness is not above reproach. I don't understand why they don't allow the tie. I mean, if after all that they go through the score ends up being the same to the thousandth then [i]just let it go![i] It worked well in the past and seems more inline with the vaunted Olympic spirit.
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Originally Posted by Johnny Angell
What I understood the commentators to say, was that normally the high and low judging scores are thrown out. I've always thought this was to an effort to remove low and high biases from the judging. In case of a tie, the highs and lows come back in. That doesn't make sense to me.
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| I can't believe how well Great Britain is doing! We have 16 gold medals which would place us 3rd in the Medals Table (if you use the gold medals are more important than bronze medals system!). |
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Originally Posted by Marianne
I wonder how upset you all would have been if the tie-break decision had been in Liukin's favor? It still would have been unfair IMO.
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| I wonder how upset you all would have been if the tie-break decision had been in Liukin's favor? It still would have been unfair IMO. |
| But on that podium you are representing your country before the world. Acting like an infant not only disgraces yourself, it disgraces your country. Sweden deserved better. |
