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

[telscha.livejournal.com]

Is in shock cos GB is 3rd on the medals table now but thats cos we're brilliant at cycling and sailing and rowing.

otherwise its China all the way. Think they just have to smile at the judges and oh look they win again.

[reneedy.livejournal.com]

That women's tie-break makes NO sense. It completely defeats the point of having a huge panel of judges. Basically it came down to what one judge thought. Plus I didn't realize the insanity of the panel composition until Tim pointed it out. That to be fair they don't include judges from the countries that are competing, but that means you only have judges from countries with crap gymnastics programs... yeah that makes sense.

Only competing with that for my outrage was how much of an asshole Jenn Stuczynski's coach was. She's only been vaulting for 4 years and she wins the silver medal and you ream her out on national television? The Russian who won broke the WR TWICE that same night. It wasn't even close. She jumped 10 inches higher than Jenn. So um, sucky coach, lighten the f*** up.

[jupiterinmo.livejournal.com]

I'll admit to some bias, being from Iowa, and watching the all-around and the commentators saying that the judges "must not like the look" of Shawn Johnson, when hello, she looks just like Mary Lou Retton in body type (built like a brick wall, seriously.), and listening to the judges talk about scoring craziness. I just happened to flip on the TV last night, and that cooked it for me. I know what happens tonight (won't say here in case of spoilers), and I couldn't be happier, but I'm kind of done with this. First the Chinese girls are underage, and now this. I feel another Russian-judge/Ice Dancing issue coming on. :(

And yeah, I would have told that coach some mighty fine words, too.