I take it you didn’t watch the qualifying rounds? (it has been replayed on USN this past week) She was unbelievably good, blowing the others out of the water.
Sometimes athletes choke or have a bad day.
It is pretty insulting to these athletes to assume affirmative action.
Sometimes athletes choke or have a bad day.
And when this occurs in a judged performance they should be scored appropriately for those errors. By saying she was excellent in the preliminary rounds, are you suggesting that her performance there should be considered on future rounds?
“It is pretty insulting to these athletes to assume affirmative action.”
But we do live in a ‘different world’, now.
Even if she blazed through the past qualifying rounds, her current performance was what was being judged, wasn’t it?
The score received is based on what you did at the moment not a week ago. It was very obvious that gabby lost her balance and took several steps out of control, the other girl simply slipped over the line and they were penalized the same. A very obvious case of PC.The balance beam was about the same. The Olympic rule to allow only two gymnasts from each country to compete in the all-around is PC to, and does let the best one all compete.
She didn’t earn the scores she got last night. Period!!!!
“Bad day”, really? Sorry Patriots, it looks like you had a bad day, here, take the Lombardi Trophy. Sorry Giants.