Okay WTF is up with these gymastics judges!!!?

Question

these gymastics judges are unbelievable. I have been watching the gymastics judges this entire olympics and they have been giving thechinese scores they did not deserve. A chinese gymnist screws up her execution and lands on her knees and she gets a 15!!!! Wtf. These judges are either very pro Chinese or they should go back to judging 10 year olds, not the 8 greatest gymnists in the world....

Answer 1

true that. so many questionable scores. i know they are human but at times they seem retarded.. sry for being harsh but landing straight on your knees does not deserve a 15.  

Answer 2

i agree i think the judges are giving the Chinese scores that they dont deserve...there in china so they greater majority of judges are probably Chinese and are for the Chinese but they better gymnasts are not all the Chinese

Answer 3

I know! I wanted to freaking strangle the judges and that girl! I felt really bad for Alicia Sacramone

Also, NASTIA should have won gold for the floor final. I am a big fan of Shawn Johnson, but I think Nastia did better then her and WAY better then the girl who actually won gold

Answer 4

I agree I agree.. He got 15.000!

It was ******* ****...  

Answer 5

lol I agree totally.

They finally gave Fey (fay or whatever) a 14.5 or so tonight - she cried.

It's what she DESEVERD (can you BELIEVE it???)  

Answer 6

Too bad the judges aren't Chinese.

However, if I was a judge, I'l purposely give China a higher score to p**s off USA and their constant whinging

Answer 7

I agree, I am very frustrated with the gymnastics part because I doubt those 2 chinese girls are even old enough and there seems to be favorable scoring. Sucks for Nastia and Johnson they were screwed in floor

Answer 8

Sigh.... here we go.

The score is based on the degree of difficulty the athlete is attempting stated before the attempt so that a mistake on a harder technical vault or floor routine is still deducted from the score but because there are more elements to score from the athlete still beats the opponent.

Understand now?

Answer 9

I agree.  We all understand the scoring system, in terms of difficulty seedings.  When you see the American gymnasts are starting with as much (and usually more difficulty), it's very difficult to explain how a nearly perfect performance by Nastia  can lose out to a flawed performance by the chinese.  

Many have mentioned the fact that Yiu touched the mat with her knees and still got above a 15 (I believe it was even abobve 15.5...) Then there was the step the chinese gymnast took upon completing her uneven bars last night, whereas Nastia took no step (just a very slight hop), and they still tied - with the tiebreaker being a rediculous, arbitrary set of rules - both should have gotten gold with a tie.  It's how all the other sports work, it's how gymnastics used to work, and to top it off, many were saying it shouldn't have even been a tie as Nastia's routine was clearly tougher.

I would love to see the individual judges scores published.  I'd be very interested to see if anyone is clearly favoring (or unfairly penalizing) any particular athelete or team.  The Australian judge is suspect, based on what i saw last night.

Answer 10

you clearly don't understand the scoring system the chinese girl peerformed a harder skill for her start allthough alicia stuck(which wasn't even perfect) the chinese girl got more points for an attempt at it so all of you should STFU

Answer 11

Ok to all you people who are explaining the scoring system, did you see Bela Karolyi right after they aired the vault finals? He was almost in tears talking about how Alicia Sacramone got screwed. And if you don't know, he was a great coach for the US women's gymnastics teams back in the day.

Answer 12

i totally agreee with you 100%.

when i saw that the china scored higher than alicia i was mad because it was totally unfair.

are they serious? alicia landed with both of her feet eventhough there was a lil hop, but china on the second performance fell and landed on her knees. are you serious? theres something going on.  

Answer 13

I agree!

Answer 14

I agree.