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Originally Posted by Cerek
There has been a lot of controversy concerning the Chinese female gymnasts - from the allegations that two of the best are actually underage to some very obvious favoring in their scores.
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I noticed the same thing. The Chinese gymnasts seemed to be getting very high scores when they sometimes performed worse than other gymnasts. I just put if off as having a lack of knowledge of gymnastics and its rules.
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Originally Posted by Cerek
There is an international panel of judges for all competitions. However, no panel member can be a judge if athletes from their country are in the event. In other words, you can't have Chinese judges when the Chinese gymnasts are competing. This applies to all countries.
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This isn't true for all events though. In diving, there were US judges for US divers.