Ironworks Gaming Forum - View Single Post - Is anyone else slightly pissed at Paul Hamm and American Gymnastics?

Target · 08-24-2004, 10:01 AM

The judging decisions do seem incredibly bad at these games.
The mistakes over the 3 day event, German has gold, German's given gold, German's lose gold.
And the American swimmer (can't remember name) who won his event by a huge margin, got disqualified then as the judge could not say in English why he was disqualified got the gold. Which was a good thing he was so much better than everyone else in the field. The British swimmer who to disqualified for doing a butterfly kick, when the replay clearly showed it was the guy in the next lane who did it, the dubious marking when Greeks have been involved…the list goes on.

But did anyone see the Women’s 800 meters?? What a race!! So close, and it was really good to see Kelly win, she was so happy. Well done to her and good luck in the 1500m.

08-24-2004, 10:01 AM	#20
Target Red Dragon Join Date: April 1, 2003 Location: The Midlands Posts: 1,571	The judging decisions do seem incredibly bad at these games. The mistakes over the 3 day event, German has gold, German's given gold, German's lose gold. And the American swimmer (can't remember name) who won his event by a huge margin, got disqualified then as the judge could not say in English why he was disqualified got the gold. Which was a good thing he was so much better than everyone else in the field. The British swimmer who to disqualified for doing a butterfly kick, when the replay clearly showed it was the guy in the next lane who did it, the dubious marking when Greeks have been involved…the list goes on. But did anyone see the Women’s 800 meters?? What a race!! So close, and it was really good to see Kelly win, she was so happy. Well done to her and good luck in the 1500m. __________________ Smoke me a kipper...I'll be back for breakfast!! If you can keep your head when all around are loosing theirs...you probably haven’t grasped the situation!!