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Originally posted by sunnybunny
Speaking of the olympics...it seems like this one has a lot of DQs and scoring errors....is it abnormally high or am I just noticing it mroe this year?
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What sort of DQs? I think that there's been one Russian woman (shot put, I think) and one Greek man (weightlifting) who've had medals stripped because of drug use. The only scoring error that I know about is the South Korean who thinks he won the gold in the men's all-around, though admittedly, the only gymnastics I've watched was the woman's individual all-around and the men's team. Those were fairly clean. There was the non-controversy over Aaron Peirsol's 100 backstroke gold, but that was cleared up almost immediately.
Compared to the cough syrup and vault height fiascos from Sydney's gymnastics, I think this one has gone fairly well.
Question: There appears to be no question that the South Korean's parallel bar routine should have had a higher difficulty score. If the higher score is applied, he wins the all-around on points. Should he get it retroactively?
I don't think so. I think that the competition doesn't really exist in a vacuum, and what happens during the competition impacts the rest of the competition. Some of the other gymnasts may have changed their strategy if they'd known they needed higher scores to beat the South Korean. There were protest mechanisms in place, and I think that the South Koreans missed their opportunity to object.
I do feel badly that there could be an asterisk next to Paul Hamm's medal though. One of the things that has bugged me about these games are all the asterisks. Commentators are constantly blah blah blah record blah blah remember it was set blah blah boycotted games blah blah.
