It's not the olympics without judges being made of FAIL

[lizardbeth]

SAME START VALUE. One with a screwed up landing. Guess which one ended up with the gold? yeah.

That tie-breaker system is fucked, man. Apparently FIG IOC decided that record-keeping double medals in gymnastics was too taxing or something. Poor Nastia. But boy, is she a clone of her mom, or what?

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Think how fast Usain Bolt might have gone if he didn't stop and wave to his mom in the middle of the 100m? ok, I exaggerate slightly, but, day-um. Talk about making it look easy.

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Speaking of day-um, I'm fairly sure that the final lap of the men's 10000 m was run faster than I could do it. Without running 9,600m before it. I ... should be in better shape.

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I missed the first showings of trampoline yesterday somehow. How can this be???? Luckily there's supposed to be more later.

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Yawn. Mom-in-law left today after a two week visit, and that, on top Small Person vacation and late night Olympics-watching is making me SO tired.

And unable to write fic - it makes me itchy.

Comments

[reneedy.livejournal.com]

Yeah, it was heartbreaking watching all the confusion. It's especially annoying as it's not true for the world championships, where they do award dual gold medals. So it's a special every four years rule that female athletes probably never have the occasion to learn as repeat olympics for women gymnasts is rare.

I actually feel it makes even less sense to have tiebreakers in subjective judging contests than in timed/scored ones. I mean at least if its timed/scored you can have them play another round or run the race again. But under current IOC rules we can have two "world's fastest men" but not two uneven bar champs.

[lizardbeth-j.livejournal.com]

Plus it's a new rule - as one of them pointed out, Liukin himself shared a gold way back when. So it was probably even more confusing, when he'd been one of the sharers in the past.

At least the vault tie breaker kept the whole pool of judges, they just threw out one of the scores (I think the lowest, but whichever - lowest or highest attempt, leaving one). But making a medal depend on one judge scoring a 9.1 or a 9.0 - how is that good? Don't get it. And I don't know why sharing is suddenly so awful, - it's still an average not just one biased judge. And yeah, so many sports CAN share; they said for Phelps' 100m butterfly - even if Serbian dude had proven he'd touched at the same time or even slightly before, Phelps would've shared the gold anyway.

gah! makes me so mad!