Australian Judges Need Glasses!

Come on! A .3 difference between the two gymnasts? Ok, the regular .1
or .2 is understandable. You can't catch everything. But to be off by .
3? Come on Australia! Your crazy. Get some glasses. Why do we use
judges from countries who don't DO GYMNASTICS? These people don't know
what to look for. Not even sure I want to watch tomorrow night for the
beam. Thinking about boycotting China and Australia. Aren't people
going to be glad when the gymnastics portion will be over? Then you
wont have to put up with me fussing about the crappy scoring.

Scoring? Is that what you call this?

Ok, that first chinese chick's score was crap! Shawn's routine was
soooo much better. There's no way that with several balance checks and
the lower start value that the chinese girl could get higher score
than Shawn. Shawn rocked that full turn, the whole way!

The second chinese girl is going now and has had some wicked
deductible errors...and it's complete crap! 15.7? Are the judges
getting paid? You have to be kidding me?!

Ok, if Nastia's routine does not score well...I'm turning it off. Ok I
really won't. YEESSS!!!!! Great routine by Nastia! She rocked that
solid and made it look beautiful! About time the judges realized what
good balance beam looked like.

I have to admit that there is some great gymnastics happening, not
just from the US girls, but also the Romanians and Russians. Great
routines by these girls. Especially on the balance beam. We'll see how
it goes tonight. Wish they could start these gymnastics events a
little earlier. Would make for a better bed time. lol.

What is up with the Chinese scoring in gymnastics?

Ok, not sure how many other people noticed it, and I don't care how
politically incorrect it may be to say to that the scoring is way in
favor for China, but the scoring was in so much favor of the Chinese.
The US men's bar routines were amazing compared to the Chinese and yet
they scored much lower. The US girls team got much lower difficulty
scores on routines that were much more amazing on the beam than the
Chinese. The Chinese lost there balance so many times it was insane.
And then let's not get into the whole age thing! Yeah, they're Chinese
and have different heights and growth stages than the US, but come on!
I've worked with enough girls to notice that these girls are
definitely not 15. Not even the youngest looking going to be 15 this
year US girl I've worked with looks this young. Absolutely crazy and
complete favoritism. I'm more relieved seeing the Chinese floor
scores, but still think the judging is favored in both the men's and
women's gymnastics. Just glad we kicked tailed in swimming. But I'm
partial to the gymnastics events.

So there you go. Another rant by Tory Almond.