Do you think the judges in the Olympic Women's Gymnastics know what they are doing?

Question

As I am understanding it the Australian Judge has little to no experience in judging gymnastics. Is there something we can do to have them be fair and recount the scores? Nas should have gotten the gold, even if she tied with China. In other events they will hand out two Gold medals for tie. Why not gymnastics? Your opinion?

Answer 1

Oh For Crying Out Loud.

Watch it again. That Australian Judges score had NOTHING to do with the results. Her score was not included in He Kexin's final score - it had already been eliminated - so stop blaming her.

It is quite clear to me that these judges know the code of points and judging system much better than the people on here seeing how this tiebreaker system has been place for these games for some time and were available on the front page of the FIG Beijing Website.

I am not saying its right - only that if you have never heard of it until today - who are you to question the professionalism of judges who knew about it before the gymnastics even started.

Answer 2

My dear American girl, it is you who need to learn the rules.  There is no "should have, would have, could have".

Answer 3

who cares

Answer 4

The problem is that they can't use judges from any of the countries competing in the events finals. All of the strong countries are there, so you get stuck with judges from Australia, South Africa, Italy, etc. who don't have nearly as much international experience. There needs to be better training, and the scoring system as a whole needs to be examined and overhauled...it is too susceptible to corruption and is too confusing.

Answer 5

Understand that in gymnastics(they have their own scoring tie-breakers that was accepted by the IOC), that in international competition nobody competing in the finals can have a judge on the panel. Therefore your bound to get  somebody who does not have really good judging skills. Sounds like a change is in order for 2012. Was a shame about Nas( she deserved the Gold also) She handled it like a true sportsperson.

Answer 6

Yeah watching the olympics its feels as if they want the chinese to win and judging them very loosely and lenient

Answer 7

they are horrible judges!

i wish they could recount the USA was so much better then those 12 year old chinese girls. but they should give 2 golds it would be fair, its what happened to her dad.

Answer 8

Originally, the scores are determined by adding the difficulty with the execution scores given by various judges with the 2 lowest and the highest execution scores dropped. By this process, the two girls tied exactly with the same difficulty score of 7.7.

To break the tie, the Olympics guidelines (which was already agreed upon by all participating nations before the games have started) said to include the second lowest score of both athletes into the scoring process. By doing this He's second lowest score was a 9.1 and Liukin's second lowest was a 9.0 which makes He's average higher by the thousandth point giving her the gold.  

Answer 9

yes they know what they're doing so STOP POSTING THESE QUESTIONS

Answer 10

No f**king way do thay know what thay are doing

If you tie with someone you should both get the metal

Answer 11

They don't give two golds in other events. If there is a tie in swimming or running they go up to the thousandths of seconds. In jumping events like high jump they go to how many times someone knocked over the bar in previous rounds. Much the same thing for weightlifting. In boxing they do a count back to see who landed the most punches. I don't know any sport that just gives away two golds.

Answer 12

no they don't and it bothers me,

nastia should have gotten the gold by far

Answer 13

Please stop kicking the poor horse :'(