Is it just me, or does it seem China is getting the calls favored towards them?

Question

seriously. An Example. Diving. 3 meter springboard, womens.

JingJing gets Gold, Julia Pakhalina gets silver. I watched everyone, and I personally thought Julia did better. Yet, even though JingJing messed up a couple times, like everyone is bound to do, Jingjing got a higher score then most anyone, yet did the same mistake.

One dive, someone dove, did it almost perfectly, just made a splash at the end, not even huge, she got something like...68.something. JingJing, jumped off, slightly offbalance, ends up going in the water slightly curved, made a little bit smaller splash then Julia, yet JingJing got a much better score. (Somewhere in the low 80s.)

I also noticed similar things that teams got called for, or individuals, that China didn't get called for.

Anyone else notice this?

Answer 1

I noticed this on the final all-around gymnastics the other night. The commentators would say that they weren't expecting a very good score but then they would say that it was too high for the mistakes they made. It didn't really help china though. Nastia Luikin got Gold, and Shawn Johnson got silver, and China's Yilin Yang took the bronze.  

Answer 2

I haven't been watching the olypics just for that reason, I knew that China wouldn't play fairly  but there isn't anything you can do about it,  in fact I was against going over to Chinaat all. I dont trust them, their communistand you cant trust communist.

Answer 3

The splash is EVERYTHING in proffessional diving.

Answer 4

People say this every olympics.  the Home country gets the rules.  It happens.

Answer 5

There is also difficulties in the dive.  Not just amount of splash.  If you had listened to the commentator on NBC (I did), then you would have known.

Also, all host countries usually get 20% medals due to "Home Court Advantages".

Answer 6

its in china so they are going to favor them . and china has good athletes lol but seriously they are going to be bias so they can get out with out being shot