Olympic Mistakes

[FettsBabe]

Did you guys see where the beam was set up two inches to low, and that girl almost landed on her head? Actually when she vaulted she almost hit her head on the beam. But somehow her hands kind of got on the beam, so she could do her flips. When she landed it was almost in a "pile drive" position. It was scary for me just watching!!

It looks like those things would have been triple and quadruple checked.

 

[Wangel]

I watched the balance beam, uneven bars, and floor gymnastics the other nights. I was very disappointed in everyone. Two out of 5 contestants made major blunders. I was also disappointed in the way the disappointment was handled by our TV crews. They showed the coach kissing a contestant after a good performance on the cheek. Then when one of his other girls did a poor performance, the coach did not kiss that girl on the cheek. The TV crew made a big deal about it. The TV crew was trying to compare US standards to Bolgaria standards. Things are not the same all over the world. We don't know the whole story.

 

[shopbruin]

I thought it was the vault that was 5 centimeters too low.

I can't believe no one caught that until the third rotation. I thought that one of the athletes would have noticed by then. I mean they vault off the sucker probably 50 times a day.

Yeah I thought the competition this year was bad with so many favorites falling like there was no tomorrow. Go Romania though... that was nice to win team gold and then sweep the all around. Sweeeeet.

I was disappointed that NBC showed practically NOTHING of Amy Chow and all Elise Ray, all the time. She was in 35th place before she got to revault!

 

[Digobick]

I just heard on the radio this morning that the uneven bars were actually even. I thought they were joking at first, but they sounded very serious. Craziness....

 

[FettsBabe]

The girls said they knew something was wrong, but they didn't know what. I guess they assumed the equipment was accurate since it supposedly checked a few times.

The bars were even (what I heard) but they said this event screwed with all the girls minds (beam, vault - whatever it was), and made them doubt their ability since a lot of them were falling from their superb performances.

 

[Shudder]

There was that one russian girl I think russian anyway, who kicked some arse on the floor but previously botched the vault (obviously) and she's the one who fell off the uneven bars. I'm guessing the vault screwed with her head. Hard to believe they let something like that get messed up. That and most were complaining the floor wasn't right as well.

Just think that one girl could have broken her neck because some renobs didn't check equipment right.

And whoever complained about the announcers. I wonder why the olympics ratings suck. You have Bob Costas who is a complete idiot and the other announcer during the gymnastics I wanted to kick in the nuts. Does anyone like Costas?

World Series, 1997. Thanks for talking about the pitcher's BROTHER for 3 straight innings and about how Cuba is and such. Talk about the game you friggin retard.

 

[Nick Stone]

FettsBabe
Did the commentators ever tell us what the olympic officials did about this? I didn't get to see those 18 girls repeat their vaults. Why wouldn't the coaches or the girls themselves notice the 2 inches? If the basketball goal was 4 in. or 6 in. too low, don't you think our professional athletes would notice?
It's sort of amazing that Elisa Ray is trained so precisely that she misses the horse entirely if it's 2 inches too low. Did you see her twist and flip perfectly square onto the middle of her back without hurting herself. NOT DYING was an olympic feat in her case.

BTW where was our savior Beli Karoli? Wouldn't he normally jump right in the middle of this and rip them a new one?

I agree -- and can't believe they let it happen. Why would they ever change the height in the 1st place? H-mmm -- -- (conspiracy)

 

[FettsBabe]

From what I heard the officials blew it off as the people who checked the equipment didn't do their job. It looks like this would have been a priority.

Yes, it's amazing that those girls are trained that precisely. Crap, its amazing they can flip and do that stuff in the air.

 

[Shudder]

Nick Stone: You can get precisely trained in a LOT of things. I play hockey quite a bit and if I have a slightly different curve on my stick, my wrist shot is WAY off. If it's an inch or 2 too long/short, my slapshot is pure garbage. So I guess I can see how she does 1000's of flips and she knows exactly where to put her hands.. Change the jump and bam, it's way off.

Conspiracy.. Hmm. Did one girl seemingly NOT have a problem with the vault being a different height? Then perhaps, it's probably just some boner move on someone's part.

 

[RaDragon]

Excerpt from NBCOlympics.com - RE: Vault height

A complaint filed between the second and third rotations caused officials to pull out a measuring device to see if the apparatus was the proper height.

They found it was 5 centimeters too short. By then, half the field had already used the improperly installed equipment.

Though none of the three medal winners -- Andreea Raducan (gold), Simona Amanar (silver) and Maria Olaru (bronze) -- were affected by the mistake, poor vaults on the faulty equipment sidetracked American Elise Ray and gold medal favorite Svetlana Khorkina.

read the whole article here:
http://www.nbcolympics.com/?/news/gy/2000/09/21vault.html

 

[DABANSHEE]

Yeh, it just hasn't been Khorkina's olympics. You can tell she been a bundle of nerves & feeling like sh!t the whole time she's been here - jou just have to look at her expressions & body language. I hope she can get beyond this.

 

[Passions]

amy chow is a cutey