Can we challenge the Olympic judges for bogus scoring?

Question

If you seen it then you were sickened. When I watched Alicia Sacramone lose her place on the medal podium I couldn't believe she didn't at least get the bronze. She finished .025 behind the chinese gymnast, (Cheng Fei?), who could clearly be seen having more errors after not even landing on her feet, yet still scoring higher than Alicia who landed an almost perfect vault twice in a row. These athletes have given too much of themselves to be cheated out of their just due by biased judges.

Answer 1

So you are saying that every country that has a judge, including the US is against us?  Ya know they aren't all Chinese judges in the Olympics.

Answer 2

You are aware there is a new scoring system? With the judges being biased, I can't see why would judges from around the world favor China.

Answer 3

The judges have nothing to do with the home country and I can't see any European country being biased in favor of China.. Scoring is very subjective and depends largely on current international trends.  

Answer 4

I'm not sure we can challenge, but that event was not scored correctly.

It wouldn't need to be just a Chinese judge that is judging incorrectly- there have definitely been other instances in the Olympics where countries convinced other countries judges to score their athletes higher in return for favoritism in stuff like later Olympic bids, etc. Maybe that is what is happening in China? That sort of thing is hard to detect though most of the time, I'm sure it must happen way more than we hear about.

Cheng Fei actually made 2 big errors that I saw- she hit the vault with her hands completely wrong and then landed on her knees. I'm not sure about the deduction for the hands but I think its supposed to be large?

I feel bad for Cheng Fei though, did you see her after she messed up the floor routine? Poor girl.

Even though the Chinese team cheated with the girls ages and I suspect they're getting favoritism of some kind in the judging I kind of want them to win golds anyway just because I feel sorry for them. I think they are under far far more serious pressure than any of the girls in the US team.  

Answer 5

There is a new scoring system. The ones with the higher difficulty in their routines will get more points. Even if they get deductions for mistakes it pays off to go with the more difficult routine.

Perhaps this was a mistake from the Americans during these Olympics?

Answer 6

Bias perhaps has something to do with it, but I think it mostly has more to do with the stupid scoring system they have now. Going with a more difficult routine will give you a higher score than an easier routine, even if you land flat on your face in the process.

In events in like gymnastics it isn't just about skill, it's also about how well you can manipulate the scoring system.

Answer 7

Alicia's vault point was only 5.8, that put her starting point way below the chinese girl, there was only 0.8 point for a major failure, so the chinese girl still got higher socre.

Answer 8

I feel were you coming from but you have to understand there are difficult scores so if someone is doing a routine in which their difficult is high and they score a little lower than someone who did an easier exercise and score a little higher it might go to the person who does the more difficult routine.  Alicia routine was good and minor stuff on the landing but her difficult score was much less than Chang who did mess up on her last vault but her two score edge alicia out because her routine were harder.

I think to correct this is that each person have to do a routine that is easy , then medium and then hard and you grade each one on each.