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I agree. It's like impossible to get below an 8 on execution or something. It's like frigging penalties in football or fouls in basketball - I think there's a lot of like "reputation" involved which is lame,
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My biggest objection is that it's a subtractionist's dream. Vault, uneven bars, balance beam, pommel horse, and rings- you might as well just fast forward to the dismount as that's where half the points are gained/lost, barring a fall or something.
Honestly, I think every gymnastics coach has this conversation with every 7 year old gymnast: "How does scoring work?" "You get a 10, and each little mistake you make, you lose X points." "What about adding neato elements that are more difficult?" "Why? It's not like you get extra for them" SI
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wow - memmel just came off the uneven bars too
I think this us team is not going to compete for the team gold - we're reduced to rooting for nastia + shawn in the all-around
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heh - and nastia just fell on her back on her dismount
I think this us team is cursed
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With all the big missteps the US has had, how are the Americans even in it for the team competition, particularly since everyone else gets to drop a score except us? Are the other teams kissing the mat every other participant? SI
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that's a damn good question SI. prolly because due to "reputation" the other teams are ending up with 14's for comprable exercises while we get 15's?
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that being said - none of these scores affect the team finals, so really they could still win it all if they just don't fuck up the same ways then. Means fewer US girls in the all-around or the individual event finals though.
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08-10-2008, 08:43 PM | #208 |
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solid beam score for alicia on beam there
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Remember guys this is just the qualifiers, they still have to actually have the all around competition, this is just to get into that round and we're a shoe in to be in the top 8 teams overall.
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Bah. I wish NBC would show coverate all at the same time. This thread is useless because the results are posted 3 hours before they are shown on the West Coast
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are we being bad about not spoiler-izing the things that aren't live?
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I think I just said that - lol
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Really? Sorry, didn't realize that. I figured that since the east coaster (EST) and myself in flyover territory (CST) were getting stuff at the same time that it was the same for everyone. I presume the live stuff is the same for everyone (i.e. the morning swimming stuff that they show here in the evening). SI
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that girl (shawn johnson) is just...wow. flawless! and nastia's not far behind her.
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Even with all the mistakes they put up good numbers, tey have two absolute studs and if their third member comes through big in the team final they have every chance to win gold.
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so many cute ponytails. i wish more women would wear them
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Well at least they're in good spirits. Did you guys know that this is just prelims? The medal competitions are later in the week. Now for the real event, swimming.
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08-10-2008, 08:54 PM | #218 |
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oh I knew Jas. Just didn't bode well it seemd (although of course it is wiped-clean)
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calm down jas lov this was just the prelims. sheesh.
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Real good Andrea, focus on what she's doing wrong, don;t try to sabotage her any further or anything, sheesh. Reporters are morons.
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kudos to coventry. Yay for zimbabwe!
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Very impressive swim. Love seeing records fall.
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Magnuson gets the silver in the 100 fly!
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wow - cute story abou this 30-whatever year old german gymnast
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Yeah talk about a sport where she's 'out of the age bracket'
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that's cute. Norway's first ever swimming medal!
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It's tough to swim when your water is only unfrozen in July and August SI
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hahah. Hey that's okay - their bread n butter is all the winter olympic events
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Yeah, when every event has some combination of Norway, Sweden, and Finland on the medal stand SI
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(How can there be a sex scandal between Italy and France? By which I mean- they don't seem to care about sex in public in those countries )
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Very true. Synchronized diving is freaking amazing. I don't know how they do it.
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soooo close by katie hoff there! damn!
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Here we go. Here's the big event for the night
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this may be phelps' most difficult gold medal to get
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Must beat the French! They are shattering the world record so far!
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helluva catchup by phelps there in the 2nd 50...wow
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Man, look at that world record line
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I think france will take it i'd say
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GO!!!!!!!!!!! THEY DID IT!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Oh. My. God!
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Okay that was pretty fucking clutch.
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46.06 - is that the fastest relay-split in history?
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WOW!!! Love that win after France talked smack.
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Oh those silly, silly frenchies. Good to see the mouth was the one that lost to the greatest split in the history of swimming.
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and cullen jones gets a gold too - yay for that!
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That was positively electric
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phelps apparently broke the american record on the leadoff leg too
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