Is China's Olympic judges showing favoritism towards the chinese team?

Question

Is China's Olympic judges showing favoritism towards the chinese team?

Answer 1

If you said truth, China should get more medals

Answer 2

I will let you know as soon as I call them OK?

Answer 3

YES! Nastia Liukn deserved that gold for uneven bars. She got the same score as that midget who looked about 10!

Answer 4

There are no judges from the same country as a competitor allowed to judge in any of the gymnastic events

which is bad, because then you have these judges from countries that are not use to world class gymnastics judging a competition that is decided by tenths of a point

Answer 5

Sorry there are no chinese judges.

Find out their nationalities and write a rant about boycotting their respective countries.  The American Way (tm)

Answer 6

china  43 gold

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Answer 7

There is an even mix of judges from several different countries for each event, so there is not a larger percentage, if any at all, of Chinese judges in any one event.  

Answer 8

Next time when you ask this kind of sxxxxx question, learn some basic olympic rule first, dude.

Answer 9

no.

The chinese simply have better routines. If you are listening to the NBC olympic commentator's b.s and you believe them, then that is up to you. the commentators are american, so they whine whine whine and are so biased. Please someone call them up and tell them to stfu.

Answer 10

I thought so.. yesterday i think gymnast Igor Cassina (Italy) deserved the gold medal but it was Zou Kai (China) who won the games.. But im still happy for Zou though..  

Answer 11

Shawn just won gold did you see?

Concerning the tie breaker:

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.