Amy Chow - 1996 Olympics Team Compulsories - Uneven Bars

Amy Chow - 1996 Olympics Team Compulsories - Uneven Bars

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[gymnasticsloverxoxo]

She did that dismount better then anyone.

[sqekcx]

best compulsory set

[JosiahxX]

My goodness, bars was made for amy chow, it was so beautiful and perfect

[lambielkwanfan]

@uwoeric of course Lilia won the compulsories. Her compulsories were much better than everyone elses. And she was not overmarked on any event. In fact on her compulsory floor deserved a perfect 10 so she was way undermarked there.

[gymnasticsloverxoxo]

Yes I saw your point but you also missed MY point. My point was scoring will always be biased so having one judge would make it 10x worse. To have many judges imputes on it makes much less biased even though it still can be. This is the same reason there is more then just one person in a jury. Really, think about this , you are just thinking of it as well if theres a deduction it doesn't take more then one judge to see it, well if the gymnast is from their country they won't want to see it.

[blackberryhill63]

umm, there's no reason to try to sound like a pretentious ass. You missed my main point because you were trying to sound pompous.

My point was that if this is an 'objective' sport then it doesn't make sense to have situations where some judges deduct and others don't and then average. Whether or not a deduction happened, then, is either you did it or don't, that's why they review video. It's also silly that "team momentum" counts. IF this is a subjective sport, let's be honest about it.

[gymnasticsloverxoxo]

Um its pretty obvious why they have multiple judges, because some judges are biased and you need more then ones impute on a routine, obviously one could have missed something somebody else caught. If you think it would be more fair to have one judge you are really off.

[uwoeric]

I didn't think Podkopayeva was held down at all, if anything she got some very generous scores on VT/UB. Despite her weak team, she got the higehst AA scores in compulsories.

Anyway, Amy definitely deserved a better score here, that routine had some wonderful highlights and was generally clean. I think the Americans as a team had the BEST back straddle to handstand... everybody landed in complete handstand with legs together, straight as a pencil.

[blackberryhill63]

yup, it's like they want it both ways--all of the subjective elements and 'team effects' crap that can make the event seem exciting, while also making it sound like a very precisely and tightly evaluated activity where absolute

perfection is required.

In events where medals and qualifications are decided by thousandths of a point, that kind of arbitrariness is unacceptable, but hey what are you gonna do?

[mydogwearsacape]

yeah. i can understand escalating scores as a team hits (e.g. russia's compulsory vaulting), but it's just really obvious that the judges were clearly rewarding/punishing/ranking entire teams instead of specific gymnasts. podkopayeva, mo, and marinescu's scores were all held down because of their teammates' performances, while milo basically rode her reputation and late placement in the lineup (after marinescu, gogean, and amanar, anyone would score well) to high scores without stuck landings