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Originally Posted by twistedmosaic
ugh...judged events should not be olympics, or there should be more than 4 judge's scores that matter. Stupid gymanstics.
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Someone tosses out this kind of BS line during each Olympics. People who don't understand the event and its scoring go on and on about how its so subjective and this team got screwed. It isn't as if judges just pull a number out of a hat based on how they felt about a performance. They quantify each form break and deduct points accordingly. It is difficult and they don't get it all right but for the most part, the rankings are correct.
I'm a huge baseball fan but I can see that subjective strike zones can kill games. Umpires can blow all sorts of other calls that have huge impacts on the game as well.