Free Republic
Browse · Search
General/Chat
Topics · Post Article

To: mnehring
I do not agree with the poster (yet) on the affirmative action issue, however I would question this comment:

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?

8 posted on 07/30/2012 8:43:04 AM PDT by Michael.SF. (Bain Capital would not have bought into Solyndra)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 2 | View Replies ]


To: Michael.SF.

See the other comment (I should have put them in one). The point was, she is an amazing athlete who did a much more difficult routine than the others. Just because the media claims something is out of bounds, doesn’t mean it was or the judges saw it. She also may have been given more points for the level of difficulty versus doing safe routines like many of her competitors.

All of this arm chair quarterbacking and assuming the worst in everything gets pretty old.


17 posted on 07/30/2012 8:48:02 AM PDT by mnehring
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 8 | View Replies ]

Free Republic
Browse · Search
General/Chat
Topics · Post Article


FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson