Has anyone else noticed that

[Original48]

when an Olympic event includes a finish line or other traditional means of winning (i.e. goal, basket, home plate, etc.), the Chinese are not anywhere near our radar? However, when judges are involved, the Chinese seem to excel.

 

[Coastdog28]

The chinese women swimmers took gold and silver last night or the night before. Case closed.

 

[dawgatUSM]

Indeed. HOwever, I won't take away from their gymnast because they nailed everything... but that still doesn't mean they're above the age of 13

 

[Original48]

The chinese women swimmers took gold and silver last night or the night before. Case closed.

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Good point. Now I realize that our football team was a lot closer to being a BCS contender than I thought last year.

 

[seshomoru]

7 of their medals are from judged events.

28 are from your so called "traditional means of winning" events. 19 of those were gold.</p>

 

[dawgatUSM]

7 of their medals are from judged events.

28 are from your so called "traditional means of winning" events. 19 of those were gold.</p>

Right, but I don't think you're taking into account the volume of the two different types of "winning". I really don't know how it looks because I'm really too lazy to really research it... But you just have to admit there is some shady shady stuff goin on with this event to night.

 

[seshomoru]

7 of their medals are from judged events.

28 are from your so called "traditional means of winning" events. 19 of those were gold.</p>

Right, but I don't think you're taking into account the volume of the two different types of "winning". I really don't know how it looks because I'm really too lazy to really research it... But you just have to admit there is some shady shady stuff goin on with this event to night.

Agreed there is something odd about tonights judging, but two things. One, what bearing does that have on the claim that the Chinese aren't winning events that aren't judged? Two, the U.S. might get two medals tonight in a judged competion despite the traveshamockery. </p>

 

[SanfordRJones]

Gymnastics isn't a sport. It's some kind of physical art performed by extremely creepy little girls. To make this post sports related, I'd like to hit all of them in the stomach with a baseball bat.

 

[seshomoru]

It's the US team in the Olympics. That post was just as bad as all those shitheads we had to run off that would say the exact same thing in a soccer thread.

 

[SanfordRJones]

While I think soccer is kind of dumb, it's a sport. The team with the most points wins, among other criteria that gymnastics doesn't meet. Gymnastics takes athleticism, but it's in the same boat as synchronized diving: not a sport.

 

[seshomoru]

The girl with the most points won tonight.</p>

 

[SanfordRJones]

So I should have said the point of soccer is to get the ball into the goal the most times instead of scoring the most points. That's just semantics, though, because the point remains that soccer's scoring system is objective whereas gymnastics is completely subjective.

I really don't feel like getting into a message board war about whether gymnastics is a sport. I just wanted to make the quip about the baseball bat because gymnasts creep me out about as much as midgets do.

 

[seshomoru]

So I should have said the point of soccer is to get the ball into the goal the most times instead of scoring the most points. That's just semantics, though, because the point remains that soccer's scoring system is objective whereas gymnastics is completely subjective.

I really don't feel like getting into a message board war about whether gymnastics is a sport. I just wanted to make the quip about the baseball bat because gymnasts creep me out about as much as midgets do.

Yet you brought it up anyway. But, I'll bow out then as well while saying those last two routines were about as clutch as you can get. </p>

 

[Todd4State]

Gymnastics isn't a sport. It's some kind of physical art performed by extremely creepy little girls. To make this post sports related, I'd like
to hit all of them in the stomach with a baseball bat.

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is that there is nothing creepy about girls that are flexible. I think that most of them are pretty cute. You can ask Seinfield about gymnasts.

But to each his own.

I WILL say that there IS something creepy about Bela Karolyi.

 

[DynamicDawg]

I've been suspicious of the age of the Chinese gymnasts and the judging from the start of this competion. To me, the entire women's gymnastics event has been shady