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DaveC said:I would be losing it if I was the Korean, and if I was Hamm I'd never be able to live with my conscience knowing that I didn't truly win that medal.
Ultraviolet Light said:
Isn't this just ex post facto judging? If tomorrow it's declared that driving on the right side of the road is illegal in the United States, you can't review tape of me doing so last week and arrest me for it.
I realize rules of law in the U.S. don't transfer over into gymnastics, but it's not like the IOC or FIG can go review tape from the event finals in Sydney and go "whoops, we didn't notice that Liu Xuan took two steps on her beam dismount instead of the one we deducted her for, someone call Ekaterina Lobazniouk and tell her she gets the gold."
It seems to me that if Yang Tae Young's start value was originally lowered because of the fact that he had 4 holds then the officials should have been able to say that from the beginning instead of scurrying around trying to come up with an excuse.
That said, I don't think it's fair of the president of FIG to make it seem like it's Hamm's fault or his responsibility to come up with a fix for things(Federation Requests Hamm Give Up Gold ), but I certainly don't think I'd want to keep a medal I know I didn't earn.
FizzingWhizzbees said:Maybe some of these writers should try walking a mile in the shoes of the people they're writing about before they start screaming their uninformed criticism.
Ultraviolet Light said:Yang Tae Young protested his start value, not the deductions. If they missed the fact that he had 4 holds then it's their fault, but that's not what was brought into question. His start value should have been 10.0 instead of 9.9, that's what they asked be re-evaluated.
I hate how the press in the States is like "oh wait, they were wrong, that South Korean guy shouldn't have gotten any medal, go USA" - if it turns out everything's so peachy, then why did they suspend 3 judges? (They need to re-evaluate how they throw their judges together anyway, but that's another story)
Lilac said:If they were so concerned about his score they should have protested immediately not 3 days later.
Lilac said:But how can you only re-evalute the things that suit you and ignore the things that would hurt you?