Well, most of you know that I was an aspiring Olympic Gymnast when I was younger. Mary Lou and Nadia were my idols! No, I didn't have the talent or the perseverance to actually make it very far, but I had fun and learned a lot along the way. For several years, I spent about 4-5 nights at the gym and during meet season was on the road every weekend. I love gymnastics, and watch it when I can. It is for this reason that I have good reason to gripe about the judging and results of the Olympics this year. 1st...those Chinese girls are pre-pubescent...they need to wait their turn to go for the gold. Let the honest girls who put in more hours at the gym, and incurred more injury and/or risk of injury take their turn for glory. Stupid cheating Chinese...and the IOC doesn't think that Communist China would fake passports to win? Well, I hope that sorts itself out after the games. 2nd I do like Nastia Liukin, but I think that because we got an American All Around Champion, we overlooked the injustice of poor judging given to Shawn Johnson. Shawn lost Gold to Nastia by .600 of a point. Not much folks. If we look at the events of those nights, Shawn got a less than deserved score on Vault, Bars, and Beam. Lets say for argument sake that Beam was our only point of contingency. Shawn has a higher start value for her Beam (the highest in competition) a 7.0 compared to Nastia's 6.6. Shawn had an awesome event, she really only had a small wobble and took a small step on dismount. Nostia had several small wobbles and also took a step on dismount. So how did Shawn get a lower score than Nostia? Nastia's start value is .400 less than Shawn and she had more mistakes, at least .200 worth if not more. All this on only 1 event. If you add up the the missed deductions from the other 2 events, Shawn gets the Gold. I think that Shawn was targeted because of her Pre-Olympic fame. I will say that she is a very gracious loser (if you can call Silver losing) she had nothing but a big smile and hug for Nastia, anyone notice Nastia's face when she didn't win the Gold on Beam.
Wednesday, August 20, 2008
Gymnastics
Well, most of you know that I was an aspiring Olympic Gymnast when I was younger. Mary Lou and Nadia were my idols! No, I didn't have the talent or the perseverance to actually make it very far, but I had fun and learned a lot along the way. For several years, I spent about 4-5 nights at the gym and during meet season was on the road every weekend. I love gymnastics, and watch it when I can. It is for this reason that I have good reason to gripe about the judging and results of the Olympics this year. 1st...those Chinese girls are pre-pubescent...they need to wait their turn to go for the gold. Let the honest girls who put in more hours at the gym, and incurred more injury and/or risk of injury take their turn for glory. Stupid cheating Chinese...and the IOC doesn't think that Communist China would fake passports to win? Well, I hope that sorts itself out after the games. 2nd I do like Nastia Liukin, but I think that because we got an American All Around Champion, we overlooked the injustice of poor judging given to Shawn Johnson. Shawn lost Gold to Nastia by .600 of a point. Not much folks. If we look at the events of those nights, Shawn got a less than deserved score on Vault, Bars, and Beam. Lets say for argument sake that Beam was our only point of contingency. Shawn has a higher start value for her Beam (the highest in competition) a 7.0 compared to Nastia's 6.6. Shawn had an awesome event, she really only had a small wobble and took a small step on dismount. Nostia had several small wobbles and also took a step on dismount. So how did Shawn get a lower score than Nostia? Nastia's start value is .400 less than Shawn and she had more mistakes, at least .200 worth if not more. All this on only 1 event. If you add up the the missed deductions from the other 2 events, Shawn gets the Gold. I think that Shawn was targeted because of her Pre-Olympic fame. I will say that she is a very gracious loser (if you can call Silver losing) she had nothing but a big smile and hug for Nastia, anyone notice Nastia's face when she didn't win the Gold on Beam.
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I love gymnastics too! I'm with you on this judging bullshit. I think the judges are being bribed by the Chinese government as well. I had to stop watching for a while cuz I was getting so mad. It's the worst judging I've ever seen at the Olympics. Which team was your fave? I still miss Shannon Miller, Dominique Moceanu, Dominique Dawes and all those girls. I idolized them.
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