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Originally Posted by Cookie2  I've been watching the female gymnastics tonight and even the hosts that are talking are saying WTF with the low scores?! for the U.S.A.
Iseen so many girls in the Chinese team not stick it,lose their balance and still not get as many deductions?! I forgot which USA girl I think it was Shawn Johnson did a routine ..ugh forgot whichone but she got a really low score like 14.75? Then the chinese girl goes and screws up and has at least 5 deductions that are pointed out and bam! gets a 16.1 ???
I wanted to scream! And... I'm sorry some of those girls look at least 13 yrs old!? They had some competition last year and one of their coaches gave a brief interview saying how proud he was of so and so and saying how good she was for only being 13... and she's here the following year in this year's Olympics? They said all they need to prove age is the passport so everything checked out and they wont investigate any further....
Oooh well ...just had to vent lol
Genie |
Glad to know I'm not alone in how hard this was to watch. With Shawn being my hometown girl it has been so hard - because for 6 mths at least the newspapers, tv stations, and commercials have called her Iowa's Golden Girl - what if she doesn't get any gold - praying this isn't true - because she did place 1st in 2 events last night.
But the scoring is so off
- - even when Shawn started her beam routine last night the commentators were saying it seemed the judges didn't like Shawn's style, her body type - they don't like the power tumbler; they seem to only appreciate the long, dancer style tumbler. I don't understand why there isn't room for both
- I can appreciate both styles. It was crazy to see Shawn & Nastia's routines get devalued and points knocked off, when this didn't happen for the Chinese.
The age - oh, don't get me started. The Gold medal in the team event should be stripped from China and given to the US. If you want to see something right on and funny about this, watch what one of our local sports commentators had to say about this last night
WHO TV - Des Moines: Search
then click on What's Bugging Andy? (8/14/08)