Do you think the gymnastics scores yesterday were a little off?

Question

Shawn Johnson was absolutely amazing on the floor exercise yesterday and only scored a 15.525. Personally, I thought she blew Nastia away on the floor, but they scored the same.

Also, could somebody explain to me how Yilin Yang scored a 16.725 on the uneven bars? Even the announcers were saying that wasn't right. She screwed up her landing.

They were both very good, but I thought that Shawn was better than Nastia by a little bit. What do you think?

Answer 1

I agree.

Answer 2

I don't know i'm not an Olympic judge. None of the commentators were Olympic judges and none of the people who will comment on this question are Olympic judges so we have no idea what they look for. All I can say is there seems to be a lot more involved than whether or not you stick a landing. They also score for how well you completed the skill, how it looks in the air, how graceful you were etc. Now I like Shawn Johnson a lot but lets be honest....she's certainly not as graceful as any of the other gymnasts. And although she lands all her skills she doesn't look as good doing them as Nastia and the Chinese gymnasts and it appears that is more important to the judges.

Answer 3

I agree.  I don't think the judges cared much for Shawns athletic look versus the other girls more artistic look.  Even taking the start values into account, the execution values were skewed in my opinion.  Even so, the U.S. still came away with silver and gold--yeah U.S.!!!

Answer 4

so what we got gold and silver goodness you people are never satisfied

oo yea give me a low rating so what

Answer 5

i do think shawn performed better. however, unless there's cold hard evidence that it was wrong, and shawn appeals for gold (which she would never do, she's too sweet and her and nastia are best friends), then chances are nastia deserved the gold that night. maybe the pressure just got to shawn.

Answer 6

yes shawn johnson was robbed of the gold

Answer 7

learn what start value means