The REAL Olympic medal count

yahoo sports blog ^ | 8/19/08 | Chris Chase

[Nachum]

Look, I don't know much about gymnastics, but I do know that landing a vault on two feet is better than landing one on two knees. Olympic gymnastics judges evidently disagree with me, as they awarded China's Cheng Fei a bronze medal yesterday even after she fell on her vault landing. American Alicia Sacramone finished fourth despite, you know, not falling.

[Nachum]

Interesting take.

[NotJustAnotherPrettyFace]

I blame 2 things here: a) the current Code of Points which gave the Chinese girl a higher start value, if I’m not mistaken, and b) inept judges who haven’t apparently had enough experience judging high-level international competitions.

[purpleraine]

In our family we've watched every Olympic we could. This seems like a typical Olympics. Inexplicable rulings, puzzling judges scoring, and politics. Happens everytime.

We're still kicking butt and on their home court.

[Bommer]

Official Chinese Olympic Cheating Song!

[ROTB]

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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Wow. China is winning in the JUDGED events. What a shock!

[traditional1]

Well, AlGore won the Nobel Prize, and has spent half his life on both knees.....

Go figgur...........

[Artemis Webb]

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