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Anonymous
The fuck? The starving peasants of the dictatorship of North Korea now have a gold medal to call their own? Why? Bela is raging, the women's vaulting thing must have been rigged.

What the fuck happened? I only saw the last 5 minutes.
>> Anonymous
It was rigged and was pretty clear to whoever watched it. China had the top spot with a ridiculous score even though the girl landed on her knees. They gave a 0 to a Russian girl even though it wasn't her fault. And then the North Korean girl landed out of bounds but still got the gold medal.
>> Anonymous
I think it's the new shitty scoring system. You just need a ridiculous start value and if you don't suck, you'll probably win. There's less emphasis on trying to nail everything.
>> Anonymous
>>266602

Yes. Olympic gymnastics used to be about GRACE, which the Soviets, Romanians, and Americans mastered.

This new shit is about Chink brute force maneuvers. Add in as many flips and twists as you can instead of trying to make a flawless routine.

IOC IS FAIL, FUCK YOU
>> Anonymous
>>266610
Bawwwwww our gymnasts can't do hard routines because they're spoiled teenyboppers with no work ethic bawwwwwwwwwwwww.
>> Anonymous
>>266601
But the thing is, there were MORE difficult routines in Athens. These gymnasts are low caliber. Wei didn't improve from Athens. He just didn't have real competition, so he looked like he improved. There were several guys that did Alexander style horse routines in Athens, and a few that could do 2 and 3 releases BACK TO BACK on highbar.
More flips and twists also. Gym is nerfed this year.
>> Anonymous
>>266601

Seriously this new scoring system sucks fucking balls. Bring back the 10.
>> Anonymous
>>266621

">Bawwwwww our gymnasts have no consistency because they're 8 years old with no experience, but can pull off shit when they get lucky bawwwwwwwwwwwww"
>> Anonymous
>>266624
Seriously, Armetev had all the good tricks. The spinning around on one hand then the hand flares were awesome. Too bad he fucked up yesterday.
>> Anonymous
>Seriously this new age limit sucks fucking balls. Bring back the 13-14yo lolis.

fixed.
>> Anonymous
i really dig gymnastics
(my mom used to do artistic gymnastics)
and i can tell you
this system fucking sucks
it completely removes the aspect of
doing all your shit right
and being rewarded for it
instead, people are being rewarded for being "risk-takers"
and for having worse execution than those gymnasts who didn't try to stuff their routines full of shit
>> Anonymous
>>266638
ITT you can somehow perform flawless olympic level routines by getting lucky.
>> Anonymous
>>266685
Which you can do if you have the potential to pull it off. But it's a matter of doing something you can do with a bit of luck instead of something you can do consistently.
>> Anonymous
You do hard routines which increases your chances to mess up. There's a risk and reward. Sounds more fair than the "lol let's give them whatever" way of judging. You'd all be bitching about China rigging everything then.
>> Anonymous
>>266717
How about practice the more difficult things so you can pull them off consistently? Oh but that would raise the bar.
>> Anonymous
>>266558
How the fuck wasn't it Pavlova's fault that she got 0? Everyone else managed to pay attention to the light, why couldn't she?

Gymnastics is more technical now, and everyone bawwing about grace needs to go watch Rhythmic Gymnastics instead.