Didn't Nastia deserve to win the gold last night?

Question

Yes, I know the rules of the tie breaker, but don't you agree that Nastia's routine was more perfect and her mistakes were less obvious than the Chinese gymnasts?

What do you think?

Answer 1

I don't believe in tie-breakers. . . if the judges say you were equal by the normal way things work, then you're both equal.  You don't generally have tie-breakers if two people/teams tie in timed events because both apparently performed equally well, for example.  (Well, person A had a better start off the blocks. . . .)  Let's take a subjective sport and then make it even more subjective by focusing extra hard on that subjectivity!  Gymnastics seems to love a good controversy too much to just go with things the way they happen, though. . . just like figure skating.

There should have been 2 gold medals in both women's uneven bars and men's vault last night.  The men's vault issue is a bit less odd in terms of the tie-breaking method used, but that's still putting way too much weight behind one subjective score for my taste.  Leave the scores the way they fall and deal with a tie.

Anything else of "this person was better than this person" isn't mine to judge as I'm barely even an amateur when it comes to judging gymnastics routines.  Maybe I liked Nastia's routine better, but even professional judges aren't allowed to judge at this point if their home country is involved.

Answer 2

well first off i think that you're completely wrong and jlous, the chineese did wayyyy better and deserved it a lot more, and second, thsi question has been asked on her about 500 times !  

Answer 3

Yes, she did. She had less noticeable mistakes than the Chinese gymnast but, because of the judges, that doesn't change,

Answer 4

uhh no

stopcrying about it usa lost

Answer 5

Yes.

Uh...no Nastia and the Chinese were the same. Tim Daggert is an idiot.

Well, go back and listen to Tim Daggett's comments during the routines of the three medalists. For the Chinese gold winner, he points out "wow a major deduction" and a fault on the landing. For Nastia, he points out a leg separation and another major deduction in which he says she is "nowhere near vertical" and "if the judges want to they could take off a lot".

He got .933 deductions and Nastia got .966 He wins.

But Tim Daggert conflicted his remarks earlier and said He should have more deductions than Nastia.

I called that Pro-American bias and full of Bulls*it

Answer 6

She at least Stuck Her landing..But nastia and the girl for the Chinese do have WAY different styles of uneven bars..But its they way the rules are and no one can change it now.