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JayP · 08-23-2008, 05:47 PM

I love the Olympics, but watching judged events can be painful.

I'm just watching the 10m platform diving now and clearly there's some biased judges. The Chinese diver was last up and diving for silver or bronze. He does a tough dive, but doesn't do it very well (according to the announcer who picks out obvious flaws) and creates the biggest splash I've seen in any diving event thus far (and I've watched the 3m springboard men's, men's synchro, women's, and 10m women's). The splash basically looked like a cannonball (from your typical micro Chinese diver too). Most of the scores are 6.5 or 7.0 and surprise, surprise there's an 8.5 sitting there. The score got thrown out, but there's absolutely no way you can make a splash like that and get what is basically your average score for the 3rd or 4th place divers.

08-23-2008, 05:47 PM	#962
JayP Franchise Player Join Date: Mar 2003 Exp:	I love the Olympics, but watching judged events can be painful. I'm just watching the 10m platform diving now and clearly there's some biased judges. The Chinese diver was last up and diving for silver or bronze. He does a tough dive, but doesn't do it very well (according to the announcer who picks out obvious flaws) and creates the biggest splash I've seen in any diving event thus far (and I've watched the 3m springboard men's, men's synchro, women's, and 10m women's). The splash basically looked like a cannonball (from your typical micro Chinese diver too). Most of the scores are 6.5 or 7.0 and surprise, surprise there's an 8.5 sitting there. The score got thrown out, but there's absolutely no way you can make a splash like that and get what is basically your average score for the 3rd or 4th place divers.