Dalton and NSW's Beijing Olympics Thread - Part III

[Zoots]

You won't even go Google information you want, how the hell are you going to develop a body like that?

I just got back from the gym after my hour long spinning class, muthafucka!

 

[No spoken words]

I'd prefer to hear him explaining different gymnastic moves/techniques and giving us insight as to how it all works. The whining....not so much. *yawn*

Exactly.

 

[namkcuR]

You won't even go Google information you want, how the hell are you going to develop a body like that?

 

[No spoken words]

I just got back from the gym after my hour long spinning class, muthafucka!

That's the sprit, Zoots. I just got pwned!

 

[Zoots]

These Olympics are inspiring me to be more regular at the gym! lol.

 

[Zoots]

Pole Vault... awesome!

 

[No spoken words]

Cori, Batman is racing!

 

[corianderstem]

Is he in the batsuit?

 

[Zoots]

Batshoes!

 

[No spoken words]

Is he in the batsuit?

No, it was just a USA track outfit, but still.....

 

[corianderstem]

Oop, never mind - Bob Costas just explained it during the intro.

Thanks, Bob Costas!

 

[No spoken words]

You're hours ahead of me, and I don't watch a lot of track, so I must ask you to explain it to me, please.

1) Cut a hole in a box

2) One of the American Men who runs the 400m hurdles is nicknamed "Batman"

4) Am well aware of being ahead of you

 

[GirlsAloudFan]

Good. Now Nastia knows what it feels like to get screwed out of a Gold medal.

 

[corianderstem]

Oh, brother.

 

[snowbunny00774]

someone tell me about this tiebreaker thing

 

[phillyfan26]

Snow!

 

[No spoken words]

The international gymnastics federation is teh epic fail at mathematics.

In case of a tie during the individual event finals, first tiebreak goes to whoever had the higher execution score (defined to be the average of the middle four of the six judges). Kind of arbitrary, but ok.

The next tiebreaker is essentially given by taking each gymnast's 5th-highest execution score and giving the tiebreaker to whoever had the lower score.

For Snow...see above.

PFan, did you not realize that she was back? Snow, PFan missed you.

 

[snowbunny00774]

Snow!

hey you


You are one of the peeps I MISSED while I was on hiatus. What's new?

 

[snowbunny00774]

thanks speedracer

 

[No spoken words]

hey you


You are one of the peeps while I was on hiatus. What's new?

Does that sentence make sense?

 

[No spoken words]

thanks speedracer

Ass.

 

[namkcuR]

This tiebreaking procedure is bullshit. It's totally arbitrary and convoluted.

Just like the whole gymnastics scoring system now.

Now they are concerned with taking things out to the thousanth of a point, nitpicking over everything, there is clear air of snobiness, conceit over the way these rules have been set up anymore. And Bela is right, some of the judges are probably incompetent.

There isn't even a perfect ten anymore.

This gymnastics scoring system needs to looked at again.

 

[anitram]

Tim, Elfie and Al are a national embarrassment.

"Do you think [He Kexin] really thinks she won the gold?"

She DID win the gold. Drop dead!

Watching gymnastics on NBC is unbearable.

 

[snowbunny00774]

I liked the whole "do you think it would be different if it had been different" thing...not that exactly, but that was the gist of it. :forksineyes:

 

[U2DMfan]

I just want to throw a Karoyli in a blender.

 

[namkcuR]

Tim, Elfie and Al are a national embarrassment.

"Do you think [He Kexin] really thinks she won the gold?"

She DID win the gold. Drop dead!

Watching gymnastics on NBC is unbearable.

She won the gold via a tiebreaker procedure that has no basis in logic or reason. It's completely arbitrary. It makes no more sense than flipping a damn coin to break the tie.

 

[No spoken words]

I just want to throw a Karoyli in a blender.

Yup.

 

[snowbunny00774]

She won the gold via a tiebreaker procedure that has no basis in logic or reason. It's completely arbitrary. It makes no more sense than flipping a damn coin to break the tie.

what are your thoughts on the scoring system overall?

 

[anitram]

She won the gold via a tiebreaker procedure that has no basis in logic or reason. It's completely arbitrary. It makes no more sense than flipping a damn coin to break the tie.

I think it's stupid as well. But it has been around since at least the last Olympics (men's floor was decided this way, actually), and has been employed at this Olympics as well (just last night, we saw it in men's pommel horse). So this shock and confusion sounds really manufactured to me.

All of this has nothing to do with how horrendously biased the NBC announcers are.

 

[No spoken words]

what are your thoughts on the scoring system overall?

I knew that I missed you, of course....but having you back is really driving just how much home for me.