Were Judges in favor of China at the Olympics?

Question

Were Judges in favor of China at the Olympics?

Answer 1

Not at all. I think they favored America and Russia. Otherwise Gb would have been second.

Answer 2

Ohhhhhh yes. Especially in boxing + tae kwondo. It made you think, what the h**l have they got to do to get a point? Tap dance? Because boxing wasn't getting them anywhere. The chinese boxer who won gold was scruffy and threw sloppy punches. Some of the scoring was just disgusting.

Answer 3

Well I think they were 8 - )

Answer 4

only when they beat the US

Answer 5

There are always people that are gonna disagree with the judging. But China got robbed of its 8th gold in diving by a small margin that could have easily went either way. Why? They didn't want to discourage the competition.  

Answer 6

Yes, they also favored the United States in Atlanta 96'

Depends on host country.

Answer 7

no

Answer 8

It did seem that way IMO.  But like London Girl said, that's what happens - the host nation often gets favoured. If there's any room to be subjective it will go in favour of the host nation.  Can be very annoying and must be heartbreaking for the athletes involved that don't get scored fairly.

Answer 9

I felt that the judges did favour China at the Olympics in some of the events, where subjective marking was applied.  In the diving, for example, some of the competitors from other countries didn't always get the marks that their dives deserved.  Where as sometimes a Chinese competitor would be awarded high marks for a dive even when he didn't execute it well.

Favouritism has happened during other Olympics too.  At Barcelona 1992, Spain were awarded the gold in the women's judo because of the home crowd pressure when it should have rightfully have been awarded to the competitor from Great Britain.

It shouldn't happen but it does, especially in events where subjective judging decides which medals are awarded.

Answer 10

In Taekwondo they were! But the British team appealed and the British athlete won the match.