Why did the american girl lose when her and the chinese girl tied in the olympics on the bars??

Question

Why did the american girl lose when her and the chinese girl tied in the olympics on the bars??

Answer 1

From what I understand when there was a tie, the judges take a look at all the scores and the highest and lowest score for that person are not taken into account.  They then look at those scores and since in this case they were still tied, they then dropped the next lowest score and it was the Chinese Gymnast who then had the higher score.  Her score was only higher by the slimmest of margins.  

Answer 2

the tiebreaker is that they drop the next lowest score and nastias next lowest was a like a 9.1 and the chinese girls was a 8.5 so that the 13 year old girl the over better average

Answer 3

Because the whole world is against the USA and we hate the fact that you win all the time. Because we can see the future, we knew it would be a tie, so  we got together and invented a scoring system that would make the USA girl lose.

We also didn't tell the USA we could see the future because we hate the USA because they win all the time and they are just so good and we just hate that and all.

Sarcasm - the lowest form of wit

Answer 4

Australian judge was watching the wrong performance or something like that.

Answer 5

it was a tie but the chinese girl had higher points after the tie breaker

Answer 6

There is a program in the computer that handles ties, this was activated and the results were posted. This program works for everyone, it is not biased.

Answer 7

you should do some research before you go clogging up the Yahoo anwser server

This question has been answered numerous and numerous of times!!!

Answer 8

Originally, the scores are determined by adding the difficulty with the execution scores given by various judges with the 2 lowest and the highest execution scores dropped. By this process, the two girls tied exactly with the same difficulty score of 7.7.

To break the tie, the Olympics guidelines (which was already agreed upon by all participating nations before the games have started) said to include the second lowest score of both athletes into the scoring process. By doing this He's second lowest score was a 9.1 and Liukin's second lowest was a 9.0 which makes He's average higher by the thousandth point giving her the gold.  

Answer 9

It started with the Austrialian judge awarding the chinese girl a significantly higher score than other judges; giving the american the lowest score of only an 8.8 and the chinese her highest score of 9.3. The two competitors had equal score with equal difficulty rating for the routines. The rules are now only one person can win gold, the 2nd place person gets silver. With equal scores, the new tie-breaker rules apply. When there is a tie score, the person with the highest difficulty gets the gold. Because they both had equal difficulty for the skills at 7.7, they need to go to the next tiebreaker rule, which is to strike the highest and lowest scores from each competitors scores, adn they were still tied. Next they strike the remaining lowest score. The chinese girl's lowest score was 8.9 and it was tossed out, and the american girl's lowest score was 9.0 and it was tossed out. When each gymnast's scores were then re-totaled, the chinese girl's scores were higher and she got the gold. The computers automatically tally the scores so as soon as the scores were in, the american was shown as the 2nd place winner.