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08-18-2008, 08:31 AM
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Last night when we were watching the vault competitions I was just shocked by the scores. One Chinese girl fell on her knees during her landing. YET, our girl only hopped a tad. The Chinese girl ended up winning the gold! Now you know something is seriously wrong there. Also on the uneven bars.. Our girl and the chinese girl had the very same scores. They were tied!!! Yet the judges determined that the chinese girl should recieve the medal! I don't get it. I watched another olympic sport and the very same thing happened... In that case the BOTH received a medal!!! BOTH of these girls should have gotten medals! I think it all boils down to the judges being anti-American... sad...
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08-20-2008, 09:54 AM
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I think that politics should be kept out of the Olympics but sadly it always seems to creep in. I haven't been watching the Olympics but I certainly hope that all of the competetors are being judged on their ability not on their nationality!
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08-20-2008, 12:33 PM
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Oh I agree. The Olympics should not be a place for politics. This kids that are there worked hard to get to that point!
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08-20-2008, 05:33 PM
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Here is a link to an interesting article on yahoo spots about the olympic medal count EXCLUDING the judged events. http://sports.yahoo.com/olympics/bei...urn=oly,101537
The Non-judged 2008 Medal Count China: 22 gold; 11 silver; 11 bronze United States: 21 gold; 19 silver; 21 bronze Here's a quote from the article, "As you can see, in the events where medals are determined by competitors rather than judges, the gold medal gap between China and the U.S. is greatly narrowed, and the total medal count is an American runaway. Counting the judged events, China has a commanding lead in golds. Hmmm... Nope, nothing fishy about that!"
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08-21-2008, 04:13 AM
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Wow! Sadly there ins't anything that can be done tho. I think the girls really got screwed!
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