Did the chinesee goverment pay off those judges?

Question

the judges in the gymnastic event. it's not fair that fei cheng got first place even though she fell on her kness

Answer 1

Tim Dagget is a former gymnast, not a judge. If you watch CCTV their announcer is a world-class gymnastics judge and predicts the scores almost always accurately. There is nothing wrong with the judging at this Olympics. why?

The uneven bars:

Yes they should give two golds like they used to do.

Those who think Liukin should get higher score than He Kexin think that because Tim Dagget said so. It was his opinion, but not necessarily the right one. He has never been a judge. Using his "visible error" logic, Yang Yilin (who got bronze) should have had the highest score because she had perfect landing and no visible error at all. The gold would still have gone to China.

Clearly "visible error" is not the only place you can get deductions. That's why you have professional judges.

The vault:

The rankings are determined by the Average score of two vaults they do, not any single one. Cheng Fei had a perfect, super difficult first vault which gave her 16+. She did get a much lower score than Alicia's 2nd jump due to her landing, but her first score was much higher than Alicia's and they evened out. She slightly edged out in the average.

She also had much higher starting value than Alicia on both vaults, which helped.

Don't forget in the uneven bars qualification round, Liukin landed on her back yet she still got a high score 15.95 because of her start value. If landing is the only criteria, everyone would do the simplest move.

There is nothing biased going on there. Learn the rules and learn to think for yourself instead of what your biased media lead you to think. They have their own interest to spice things up and create controversies.

In a way I think they are very unprofessional in how they presented this case (replaying the fall over and over again and ignoring it's the average that decided the ranking) when in fact there was nothing controversial at all.  

Answer 2

My friend, you could be right on the money. These judges got paid off big time.

This is a shame for our gymnasts.

Good luck

Answer 3

I don't think they are pro-Chinese. I think they are anti-American. There are many European judges and they are mixing in politics with sports which is completely not right. Even in the recent uneven bar competition when Nastia Liukin tied with He Kexin. Obviously they made it a tie on purpose because they knew the tie-breaker would go to He. What I find surprising is nothing is being done about this and about the age issue. That's a whole different story but this judge problem really has to be investigated.

Answer 4

Actually Americans won more medals in women's gymnastic at the end.So I guess the judges should be paid off by US goverment. Besides did you really watch the game? Cheng fei got the bronze in vault not the gold, while Sacramone was in the 4th place. Sour on bronze medal? Gosh!! When did American became so pathetic?  

Answer 5

i know its been like that all through the gymnastics..

its terrible how biased it is

it makes me so mad

Answer 6

I totally agree is it not fair. But perhaps that is the point of holding it in China - they want the world to know they can do whatever they want to do, regardless of its fair or not, and whose gonna stop them? I think they either cheated or programmed the computer to just put out top scores for their own gymnasts.