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The London 2012 Olympic Games...

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dr150 said:
Lets all take a break from quibbling and enjoy more important matters at hand. :thumbsup:

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What were we talking about? Never mind, I will just sit here and smile 🙂
 
BrokenVisage said:
Did I say I did? How gymnastics is specifically judged is ancillary to the point I'm trying to argue. I couldn't care any less about how the judges judge or how they award points, it doesn't matter, I'm just poking holes in the hypocracy of letting athletes protest a judgement in real-time where they have the advantage of knowing what scores they have to beat if they're one of the last to go. Now, if they open up re-evaluation possibilities for everybody at the end of the event then I'm onboard with that, but there shouldn't be a stupid time limit that you need to be under in order to file a protest. Maybe I'm missing something here, and since it's women's gymnastics that's probably the case, so maybe you can educate on how this is fair since you seem to be confident in knowing how judging gymnastics works.
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You can only protest the difficulty score. Anyone who received the wrong difficulty score would know to protest it when they saw their score, because they know what their difficulty score should be. It's not a subjective score. You don't have to be behind to recognize that your score is wrong, or to want a higher score.

I do think it's stupid that they don't allow ties in gymnastics. They calculate scores to the thousandth of a point (which is itself stupid, because they can't judge with that level of precision). If two athletes have identical scores, let them have a tie.
 
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benzylic said:
🙄thats ridiculous.

you want to eliminate: gymnastics, diving, boxing, basketball, soccer, volleyball, badminton, tennis, water polo, shot put, discus, synchronized swimming. long jump, triple jump, fencing, trampoline, field hockey, judo, taekwondo... or any event thats not a race. and those are only the summer events, do that to the winter olympics would eliminate almost the enitre thing.
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A lot of those have clear defined objective and scoring system for winning. Me thinks you know not the meaning of the word ”subjective”.

Anyways, moar women beach volleyball pics, nao!!
 
SSSnail said:
A lot of those have clear defined objective and scoring system for winning. Me thinks you know not the meaning of the word ”subjective”.

Anyways, moar women beach volleyball pics, nao!!
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There's been more complaints about the Canada/US soccer results than there has been about any diving results 😉
 
mugs said:
You can only protest the difficulty score. Anyone who received the wrong difficulty score would know to protest it when they saw their score, because they know what their difficulty score should be. It's not a subjective score. You don't have to be behind to recognize that your score is wrong, or to want a higher score.

I do think it's stupid that they don't allow ties in gymnastics. They calculate scores to the thousandth of a point (which is itself stupid, because they can't judge with that level of precision). If two athletes have identical scores, let them have a tie.
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It used to be that way. then they changed to this idiotic scoring system they have now. Aliy got screwed out of a bronze in the all-around because of it. EVEN though she tied for 3rd

Her coach was right to challenge the score. the judges screwed up her starting score and that would have cost her a meddle. I do feel sorry for the girl that lost she tied her and got screwed out of the bronze.
 
Printer Bandit said:
or how about we replace human judges with high speed cameras tied to a power computer like Watson?
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Pretty sure computers wouldn't be able to figure out what is a foul and what isn't. Taking away sports with subjective scoring would make the most boring olympics ever.
 
SSSnail said:
A lot of those have clear defined objective and scoring system for winning. Me thinks you know not the meaning of the word ”subjective”.

Anyways, moar women beach volleyball pics, nao!!
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In football, basketball, and soccer the officials deciding to call a penalty or not is subjective, as evidence by people arguing about the US/Canada soccer match. Those calls can completely change the game. In a sport like tennis or volleyball calls on whether the ball landed in bounds or not when right on the line. Granted in tennis they have that computer system that tracks the ball. Even a baseball umpire calling balls and strikes changes from person to person, and sometimes inning to inning.
 
I'm watching the women's platform diving preliminary rounds now. This is just ridiculous, the Chinese are in a class of their own when it comes to diving. Every dive that I've seen has been perfectly executed and there's almost no splash. They top the standings after every round. It comes down to all the other divers to fight for the bronze medal.

Oh and that Dutch gymnast last night on the high bar was amazing.
 
AstroManLuca said:
I'm watching the women's platform diving preliminary rounds now. This is just ridiculous, the Chinese are in a class of their own when it comes to diving. Every dive that I've seen has been perfectly executed and there's almost no splash. They top the standings after every round. It comes down to all the other divers to fight for the bronze medal.

Oh and that Dutch gymnast last night on the high bar was amazing.
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Yea I saw women's diving the other day. It was no where close.
 
Golden shower for US Track and Field today. Gold/Silver in 110M hurdles, Gold/Bronze in women 200M, Silver in 400 hurdles, and likely Gold in long jump.

Plus a guaranteed Gold/Silver in beach volleyball. We are creeping up on Chinese 🙂
 
"Bolt is a huge favorite to claim another gold medal after triumphing in the 100 meters on Sunday, but weather experts revealed that for much of Wednesday and Thursday the Olympic Stadium will be affected by swirling winds and cooler temperatures – far from ideal for Bolt's attempt to break his own 200 world mark of 19.19 seconds.

However, the weather is set to clear up just in time for the 200 final, which is scheduled for 8:55 p.m. London time on Thursday, increasing the likelihood of another blistering time for Bolt"

http://sports.yahoo.com/news/olympi...o-break-world-record-in-men-s-200-meters.html
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So I guess we can all watch Bolt's live performance stutter at NBC Olympics website at 3:55 PM EST tomorrow.

(IIRC, I think he said his goal is to go under 19 seconds for new world record).
 
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First Carmelo, then Durant, and today Kobe.. raining treys!!

Anthony Davis is so outclassed compared to everyone lol. Got swatted at the end of this game bad.
 
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