Canadian skaters totally screwed!!!!

[blackice]

Originally posted by Ming
Latest report...
The Head of the French Olympic team has just told the AP that the French judge was a "fragile person" who had been manipulated...
It just keeps getting better with each report

and what was it the Chinese judge resigned for health reasons heh ok.

Judged sports like boxing, gymnastics, karate well you may get the point is this what you mean peacemaker?

Understanding life and tollerance of life BTW is part of getting a life peacemaker something you may want to try one day?

[chequita guevara]

With zero evidence to the contrary, yes, I believe that she knew nothing.

[JohnT]

Originally posted by Docfeelgood
These new revelations are down right disgusting!

Hell, I knew the Oscars were fixed because of " The color purple " but the Olympics?

Sorta turns my stomach

Actually, a lot of the Color Purple fiasco was because at that time Hollywood didn't care for Speilberg - too young, too successful, "he hasn't struggled like the rest of us."

Also, Oprah Winfrey placing that ad in Variety didn't help the movies cause either.

Though racism probably had a bit to do with it too... can it be that this is the first year that 2 African-Americans got nominated for best actor simultaneously? Lord.

[chequita guevara]

Actually, that's an excellent comparison. The Oscars overwhelmingly go to established, mainstream, pedantic films, directors, and actors. The Olympics, likewise, are judged by a select, conservative (not politically) group of people, who are not known for their love of experiemtnal, innovative, ground breaking work.

[Ming]

Originally posted by chegitz guevara
(not politically)

ROTFLMAO


How can you say that with a straight face...

[blackice]

Ok Canada got screwed it is a fact now what?

[chequita guevara]

Originally posted by Ming



ROTFLMAO


How can you say that with a straight face...

Okay, they probably are, but I was trying to get at a differnt point, which is they tend to be bound to tradition, hate new stuff, etc. That's not necessarily a trait of political conservatism.

BTW, remember, the Candadians lost by more than one point, so even if the French judge had voted different, the Canadians still would have lost.

Remember, skating judging is extremely subjective. Also remember, where the Russians killed the Canadians was in artistic. They lost to them in technical, but aparently that wasn't enough.

[Asher]

Ermmm...Che, I think I figured out why everyone seems to be disagreeing with you. Did you see the same performances?

The vote was 5-4 in favor of Russia getting gold. How, some quick math will show you that if the French judge was proven to be biased, then it's 5-4 in favor of Canada instead.

Also, the part that everyone's disagreeing with is the TECHNICAL score. ARTISTIC score is measured by PRESENTATION.

How the hell could some judges (France, Russia, etc) give the same technical marks out?
You use the 'speed' argument, but last time I checked there are no radar guns measuring speed.

It goes by "tricks"(bad word but it's late) attempted and how well they were executed. From what I saw, there was no additional tricks the Ruskies did that the Canucks didn't, but the Canadians did so without any errors while the Russians had a few. So how'd some judges give them the same marks?

See this story: http://www.msnbc.com/news/705743.asp

[Ming]

Originally posted by chegitz guevara
Okay, they probably are, but I was trying to get at a differnt point, which is they tend to be bound to tradition, hate new stuff, etc. That's not necessarily a trait of political conservatism.

I'll agree that they are locked in tradition, and the only new stuff they like is when somebody turns a triple into a quad for the first time, and succeeds! But I just couldn't pass up on the non political line... I just couldn't

[lightblue]

Update Live from Salt Lake:

Both pairs get a gold medal. French judge suspended because of strong evidence of vote-rigging.

[reismark]

Thank god. There is hope for this sport yet.

[pchang]

impartial judging

Now, if they could only do something about boxing.....

[devilmunchkin]

if there is strong evidence against the french judge, then they must have evidence against the other judges too right? and will they then reexamine all the scours for all the pairs?

[reds4ever]

Re: impartial judging

Originally posted by pchang
Now, if they could only do something about boxing.....

most people don't know how boxing is scored, they just shout "bad decision" when there're told too!

[KrazyHorse]

Re: impartial judging

Originally posted by pchang
Now, if they could only do something about boxing.....

If and when they work the kinks out of electronic scoring...