Yeah you're right, it wasn't exactly burqa. It was more or less skin-tight and the face wasn't covered; but still it looked very odd next to all those women who compete almost naked in the track&field events.
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Yeah you're right, it wasn't exactly burqa. It was more or less skin-tight and the face wasn't covered; but still it looked very odd next to all those women who compete almost naked in the track&field events.
Yep, he made history being the first man to win both the 100m and 200m races in world record time.
Anyone else psyched about the May-Walsh game tonight?! 
I found out the other day that that's actually an official, IOC-mandated uniform.
Which bothers my inner feminist.
Wow, Bolt was amazing! Again!
However, Wallace Spearmon has been disqualified for stepping on the line (and stupid NBC is asking him "What's your emotion?! What are you going to do?!" and he's still in a daze having just found out). Chruandy Martina may also be disqualified for the same reason.
However, Wallace Spearmon has been disqualified for stepping on the line (and stupid NBC is asking him "What's your emotion?! What are you going to do?!" and he's still in a daze having just found out). Chruandy Martina may also be disqualified for the same reason.
We (family, friends and I) were wondering about the uniforms yesterday. No one was sure if they were more comfortable than the alternative or just for show. I'm just happy we get live beach volleyball.
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That doesn't make any sense. Noise in the signal implies that the scoring system produces quantization error. AFAIK the scoring system is just a simple average of all the judges' deductions. Nastia lost because her middle 4 scores has a greater range. This isn't random at all as it indicates that her exercise routine resulted in a wider range of opinions at least in the middle 4 judges. Now you can claim that the judges are too subjective or as some people like to claim "random" but of course the entire gymnastic competition has been depending on the same objective/random opinions of these judges for the last 10 days. The 3 significant figures are merely used to differentiate the averages. Would you rather they add the scores and compare the cumulative result? It's the same difference.
They are also at home. The team gold and another individual gold would be more of a disappointment especially since their men pretty much swept the events.
IOC is not so much afraid of China as they are most likely sucked in by the royal treatment no doubtedly lavished upon them by the Chinese government. Believe me anyone can make idealistic speeches about China but when it comes to the real business they usually shrivel back or even become cohorts. It has nothing to do with courage.
You see this is why I support an open competition. One if you are good enough then you should be at the Olympics. Two the older gymnasts should be able to show that they can win against all the competition. Finally there are ways to fake your age all the way down to your birth certificate. It's a logistic nightmare for the IOC to try to figure out the correct age of all the gymnasts. In this case you can't just demand a blood test.
Speaking of men's competition there is another possible fix. Add an exercise in women's gymnastic which requires more strength.
THEY DID IT!!! Back-to-back Gold Medals!!! All hail Misty May-Treanor and Kerri Walsh!
461-18 since Athens!
461-18 since Athens!
Actually, I think it does. With the tiebreaker system, inter-judge variation in scoring becomes important as successive scores are dropped. Given the subjectivity in judging this sport, I consider such inter-judge scoring differences (for a single gymnast) to essentially be noise. Theoretically, if the scoring were truly objective, all judges would give the same score for a particular performance. And by "three significant figures" I mean that a score with precision to a thousandth of a point (or five thousandths as it seems scores are always in increments of 0.005 points?) doesn't make sense to me given the variability in the scoring process.
You know what really impressed me (beyond the incredible playing by May-Walsh)? The match went completely uninterrupted by commercials!
Amazing tournament by May and Walsh. Winning the entire thing without dropping a set. Congratulations to them for winning a second consecutive gold.
That's some righteous bling there.
Michael Phelps on the cover of Sports Illustrated wearing all eight medals.
That's not a half bad idea. It would provide a little equalization from the elite programs always being after the teensiest, tiniest, youngest little prepubescent girls for their teams. My husband had a great idea, too-- not an age requirement, but a minimum weight requirement. Weight can be easily verified before every competition. Shawn Johnson is only 4'10" (the lowest end of normal height for an adult female) but she weighs 90 pounds. The Chinese gymnasts in dispute are between 68 and 75 pounds. Shawn's small, but she's healthy, at a proper weight for her height with a bit of muscle tone. My husband reasoned that if they changed the age requirement to a weight requirement (just put a scale right out there on the competition floor) that the change in emphasis to keeping the weight on would make for a much healthier psychology. The unbelievably small and lightest younger teen girls probably wouldn't make the requirement, but if they did, they'd be the healthier 14 and 15 year olds with a bit more height (He Kexin is 4'7". Deng LinLin is 4'5") and a proper weight.
Add a strength apparatus to the womens competition and a minimum weight requirement of 90 pounds to compete in olympics and worlds, and that would take care of a lot of problems.
You're right, too, about the IOC happily raking in the cash from the Chinese games so they won't rock the boat about the girls' obviously non eligible ages.
Sad, but true.
In ski jumping they used to have problems with underweight athletes too, including some very public (and ugly) cases of anorexia; then they introduced a rule that dictated a minimum body mass index of 18.5, which had a significant effect on the sport.
If ski jumping can be helped, why not gymnastics?
Hehe, watching the Americans fuck up both 100m relays was funny.
Not the USA's day today, you can't even win gold in sports that are played exclusively in the USA (softball).
Not the USA's day today, you can't even win gold in sports that are played exclusively in the USA (softball).
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