[Scotswife]

“Luikin’s score on the uneven bars was one of the worst displays of score hacking I’ve ever witnessed.”

absolutely correct.

” It was like a clinic in balance checking.”

And not only that. When you “balance check” in between 2 skills, you are supposed to lose the credit for the connection.
So - not only did they not deduct for the balance checks (which is supposed to be a flat deduction) - they also did not devalue her connection series - another supposedly “flat” deduction.

I saw other posters suggest it was a venezuelan judge that was all over the place.
Maybe this is old cold war politics in a new package.

[Proud_USA_Republican]

Venezuelan judge was the key U.S. score hacker during the team competition. I didn't see that judge last night. I think FIG figured out what was going on and brought in someone else. But the damage had already been done.

I cannot believe FIG would be that stupid to bring in a Venuezuelan judge when the US, China, and Russia are competing against each other, but I guess they are. I'm sure when all this is done and over with, they will try to blame it all on confusion with the new scoring system, not the biased international judges on the take.

Oh well, in the end with all those chips stacked against us, we nailed 1 and 2 for the all-around competition. Pretty sweet and Nastia deserved it.