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.
Has anyone else noticed that
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Coastdog28 said:
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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.
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 said:
dawgatUSM said:
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>
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.
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.
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.
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.
SanfordRJones said:
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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.
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
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