Is it just me or are international rules for Olympics sports just crazy at times?

Question

The Page System Playoff in softball for one. Crazy....you get the #1 seed and your reward is to play the #2?

But to me even worse is the tie breaker in gymnastics. Nastia and the Chinese girl tied. No problem. Give em bot the gold would be fine. Or, since this is a sport, how bout they both go again? :)

So, to score gymnastics, there are 6 judges. The top and lowest score are dropped to normalize the scoring. Makes sense so far. But when there is a tie, they chose to just then drop the lowest remaining score? No, it does not take a genius to see that by doing that, you automatically just gave the gold to the one with the lowest remaining score. Cause in order to have the tie, the lowest score would have to be offset by having the highest average of the remaining 3 scores. So, who was the genius that thought that made sense?

Answer 1

Hey but u kno what the chinese girl that beat nastia  on the uneven bars might get stripped of her medal for being 2 young to compete :)..... Yay Can u say another god medal for us and like 8 less for china lol....i thick china cheats 2 much.....Love ur question....Aericans are the only one not to cheat in the olympics On Purpose so far :0  

Answer 2

These rules are in effect for not only the Olympics but competition at the World Championships.  

Answer 3

umm YEAH! i agree completely! like the silver and bronze medalists got DQed for stepping on the white line in there track race-CRAZY!

Answer 4

The Olympic Committee pulled off a magnificent sleight of hand trick.  Given that gymnastics is, by definition, subjectively scored, the rules committee attempted to deceive the public into believing that the event was being objectively scored through the introduction of this tie-breaking set of rules.  In other words, they attempted to make a subjective situation appear to be objective, like swimming.  If this is actually the case, then, the first one who finishes his or her routine should be declared the winner.  [By doing so, we could avoid the gymnastics competition altogether.]

The traditional Olympic events of the shot put, the javelin and wrestling have been usurped by gymnastics, basketball, and beach volleyball.  

Answer 5

to me the worse is Olympic Wrestling in case of a tie the person who scored last wins ,it could be 1-1 and if you scored the 2nd point you win  BS

Answer 6

ahahha yes. The scoring is a bit awkward. So the medal standings are all messed up.

Answer 7

yep it can be weird at times

Answer 8

im lost..

Answer 9

i think the whole thing is so stupid.

and why not just give both girls gold...in swimming two guys tyed for bronze. and the judges are making their favoritism towards the chinese a little too obvious. this olympics is pretty messed up. and all those things about how china lied on some of the girl gymnast's passports saying they were 15,16 when they were really 13...why did they get away with that? who cares if its their own country.

most of the rules are stupid. and its not fair to the athletes that worked their whole lives to get there.

im disappointed.

well i guess its still fun to watch [at times =p]

Answer 10

Arbitray, like all sports rules.  Can anyone say the infield fly rule is logical, or sudden death overtime is fair?