Put on NBC

[HeroOfPellinor]

I felt bad for McClure. He had a good but not spectacular rings performance and got a 9.1 something to drop him from medal contention to 9th??!!

Great comeback and excellent performance by Hamm, but I can't get excited about anything that uses subjective judegments to determine the winner. It needs to be timed or measured or it's just a soap opera.

 

[SaltBoy]

Speaking of Gymnastics, is it just me, or is the NBC gymnastics color commentator (don't know his name)really, really, REALLY annoying? Everything that he spits out is "oh, he made a mistake", or "oh, that's going to cost him", or "It's those little things that he missed that are going to count against him." It's all negative crap. Combine that with his whiny voice, and it gets really grating after a while.

The only positive thing I heard coming from his mouth was when Hamm did his high bar routine...

 

[Stojakapimp]

Originally posted by: SaltBoy
Speaking of Gymnastics, is it just me, or is the NBC gymnastics color commentator (don't know his name)really, really, REALLY annoying? Everything that he spits out is "oh, he made a mistake", or "oh, that's going to cost him", or "It's those little things that he missed that are going to count against him." It's all negative crap. Combine that with his whiny voice, and it gets really grating after a while.

The only positive thing I heard coming from his mouth was when Hamm did his high bar routine...

I don't think that is the color commentator. Or at least I thought the color commentator was the guy with the deeper voice. AFAIK, the guy with the whiny voice used to be a gymnast, so he just points out where people screwed up, which helps for those of us that would have no idea

 

[HeroOfPellinor]

Originally posted by: SaltBoy
Speaking of Gymnastics, is it just me, or is the NBC gymnastics color commentator (don't know his name)really, really, REALLY annoying? Everything that he spits out is "oh, he made a mistake", or "oh, that's going to cost him", or "It's those little things that he missed that are going to count against him." It's all negative crap. Combine that with his whiny voice, and it gets really grating after a while.

The only positive thing I heard coming from his mouth was when Hamm did his high bar routine...

Because that's how the sport is judged. You start the routine with a perfect score and receive deductions based on mistakes and ommissions, so it's pointless to point out what they do right because it's expected that they will get it right.

 

[abaez]

Originally posted by: lsman

Originally posted by: abaez
his final score was 9.837.. if he would have taken one tiny step back on his landing he would have gotten .01 deduction.. which would have meant silver. wow

no. The difference between gold and sliver is 0.012. That was really, really, really close.

I typo'd.. it's a tenth deduction when you take a step on the landing. .1

 

[dullard]

Originally posted by: HeroOfPellinor
I felt bad for McClure. He had a good but not spectacular rings performance and got a 9.1 something to drop him from medal contention to 9th??!!

Great comeback and excellent performance by Hamm, but I can't get excited about anything that uses subjective judegments to determine the winner. It needs to be timed or measured or it's just a soap opera.

I don't understand how the scoring works. McClure must have not done something - but as an untrained eye I cannot tell what was missing. I also think that Hamm should have gotten lower than a 9.1 for his fall. Is there anywhere that lists the judging rules? I just don't understand them.

 

[boyRacer]

Originally posted by: dullard

Originally posted by: HeroOfPellinor
I felt bad for McClure. He had a good but not spectacular rings performance and got a 9.1 something to drop him from medal contention to 9th??!!

Great comeback and excellent performance by Hamm, but I can't get excited about anything that uses subjective judegments to determine the winner. It needs to be timed or measured or it's just a soap opera.

I don't understand how the scoring works. McClure must have not done something - but as an untrained eye I cannot tell what was missing. I also think that Hamm should have gotten lower than a 9.1 for his fall. Is there anywhere that lists the judging rules? I just don't understand them.

Me too... but i'm guessing McClure had a lower start value because of his easier routine... i dont think he deserved a 9.1 though.

In the men's vault event... it looks like the landing is not valued as much as womens. During the team finals... a lot of them weren't sticking their landing and were still getting 9.5s and 9.6s. I think Hamm's score was just the result of automatic deduction for sitting and going out of bounds no matter how ugly it looked.