Was Nastia Liukin's silver medal in uneven bars fair?

Question

I think it was. I liked the Chinese better, but that is not the point. The point is that all US team members and coaches and commentators are complaining about the tie-breaking method. Whine all you want. It is set by international regulators. You don't like it, then don't compete. Period. Don't try to change what you cannot change.

Answer 1

I dont think anyone who got silver because of something like that wouldn't complain. The only reason they are complaining is because its too hard to understand how the scoring works, not because they are bad sports.

Answer 2

No I think Nastia really deserved a better score than what she got. She's real good.

Answer 3

The way they explained it on television was that this tiebreak method is written into the rules of this particular sport. If that's the case, the rules are the rules.

I do, however, think it sucks that she lost to a kid who's too young to be competing in the Olympics, no matter how much denial the Chinese want to throw out there.  

Answer 4

No he had more mistakes in hers. She didn't do one of the handstands right, and she had a step on her landing. Nasti only major mistake was switching from high to even bar. And not fully do the handstand its more points of then switching to the low bar.

Many times the medal have been change after cheating so now there will be more investigators looking into the age and the judges. They have been other Olympics like Salk lake City were the judges traded score for a higher score in Ice dancing for high score in pairs skating. American said that something was wrong there even though it was Canada and Russia.  

Answer 5

It was fair in the way they went about the tiebreaker. What wasn't fair was how the Australian Judge judged the performances. The judge gave He a 9.3 and Nastia a 9.0. How did the judge feel that He did better than Nastia? We'll never know.

Answer 6

No way it was a tie. Nastia should have walked away with the medal is anything. Second if they were going to judge the way they did both girls should have gotten the gold medal then if you want to talk about fair. But Nastia looked very gracious to receive the silver medal. That's who's complaints matter if anyone should be complaining.

Answer 7

Unless she changed her tune, I heard that Nastia was gracious about the tie break and did not complain about its fairness.

Answer 8

Nastia, her father, and Marta (the USA team organizer) were all gracious about the silver. Marta explained the tie-breaking rule to Valeri and Nastia and neither of them made a big deal about it. They were very professional and gracious.

The problem lies in the fact that in EVERY other Olympic sport, except for gymnastics, if two athletes tie they are both awarded the same medal. Nastia and the Chinese athlete who tied should have both received gold and the third girl a bronze medal. I think that is the most perplexing and confusing part of this "tie-breaking" nonsense.

Answer 9

no it wasnt! u kno how them chinese people cheat