The Tie Breaker That Shot Gymnastics In The Foot
August 18, 2008 by Cherie Lampley
Filed under Sports, Sports Rumors
I read about the whole tie breaker thing with Nastia Liukin and He Kexin during lunch and just wanted to scream one thing.
FIXED!!!
Okay. That might be going a little bit too far. I’m not that crazy. But these judges just seem like they’ve spent too much time at the bar before judging. But before I could actually scream FIXED, I needed to see it for myself. So I watched the Uneven Bars Finals. Saw He Kexin’s performance. Then saw Nastia Liukin’s performance. And the only thing that can explain the judging is the look on Nastia’s face above.
So if you don’t know how the tiebreaker worked. Here we go:
- You take the high and low numbers out.
- You then take the next lowest score out and that should give you the tiebreaker.
- He Kexin had two 9.1s and a 9.0 left. Liukin had one 9.1 and two 9.0s. He Kexin wins.
That has to be one of the stupidest things I’ve ever heard of. But that’s just me. Nastia is being more of a trooper about it (besides the face of course).
“Scoring is scoring, and that’s our sport,” said the 18-year-old Liukin, after she’d been given the silver medal in her best event based on her having a higher average deduction (.966 to .933) from the middle three judges. “That’s what we’ve been going through our whole lives and we just have to accept that.” (Boston.com)
Glad someone is being mature. And by looking at the glass half-full, Liukin does have 4 medals including the All-Around Gold. Something to be thankful for right?
He had fewer deductions. THAT’s how she won.
You obviously did not do your research.
I am a guy who looks at the whole olympics the the way people viewed the 1980 olympics in the USSR. At that time the Communist Party dictated that they would win certian gold medals and they did. WOW, what an accomplishment right? Wrong. In a Communist country force and money dictate every detail. I am sure this Communist party, who boasted they would win a majority of the gymnastics gold medals, did something to back up that boast. Is it also by chance that they decided to boast about the only the subjectively judged events? They never mentioned track or any objectively scored event.
Quick, someone look for the judge that disqualified the Chinese swimmer, Pang Jiaying, for the 100 free style. I don’t think they understood that they were in a Communist Country.