Well Paul Hamm's win was totally ridiculous. I think we both would agree on that, and we dont I will be mildly amazed considering I have not talked to one person in real life yet who agreed with Paul Hamm's win. The only thing that annoyed me is everyone ignores the guy who was really robbed, the Korean who was 2nd by 0.012, and instead focuses on the crybaby bronze medalist who technically lost gold due to the wrong P-bars start value, but both he and Paul were overscored. With their mistakes (Paul's fall on vault, Yang's high bar errors which were almost a falls worth) neither should have even medaled, and the real wuzrobbed guy is ignored for his undeserving teammate, but that is another topic.
Carly's win was not ridiculous like Paul's and she might have deserved to win, but she was still the most overscored of everyone, including Khorkina who was the 2nd most overscored. If they were not overscored might Carly still have finished 1st and Svetlana still finished 2nd behind Carly but ahead of the others? Possible, but the top 5 would have all finished a lot closer in points. I was not explicably saying Khorkina should have won, I was saying I kind of understood where she was coming from when Carly was the most overscored gymnast of all that night, including Khorkina. So I had no problems at all with her gripes, it is not like I disagreed one bit about her insinuation Carly was lucky to be American and the favorite of Marta and the powerful people in the U.S. And U.S gymnasts since becoming contenders again have in general been on the overscored side, again I dont think that is some grand secret. Think of a lot of people who still dispute if Liukin deserved 5 medals in Beijing, whether Weiber and Douglas deserved their major AA titles over Komova or not, whether Kiocan's being part of the big tie for bars gold with those others was kind of a joke or not, etc...at the very least they are given the benefit of doubt more than any other country. Which is to be expected when you think about it as the U.S pays the most money into the Olympics so everyone involved is wise to keep them and their fans happy now that they are finally a superforce in the sport. Most of the traditional powers sucking and dying off has helped them too, but that is only in the last 5-6 years where it really hit. I am not really talking about the extreme cases of superiority like Biles which is a pointless discussion, but she is an aberration.
Pavlova imparticular was ridiculously undermarked on every single event compared to Patterson and Khorkina. Her vault which was higher, cleaner, had a better landing, and didnt incur .1 for going out of bounds only scoring 0.05 more than Carly, ROTFL, please. Her bars had a low start value but got a lower execution mark (well got less out of her start value) than Carly and her fugly bars work, and Khorkina who had mistakes that day in her set. Her beam and floor were just as good as Carly's IMO, particularly her floor where her only slightly disadvantage is slightly lower but still equally solid tumbling, and she more than compensates with far superior choreography and dance to anything Carly could dream of. Both scored over a tenth lower though, and her beam lower than Nan who had mistakes in her routine that day. She should have atleast been on the podium, possibly even with silver. Sofronie was harshly scored in places, even her beam while shaky was certainly not worse than Khorkina's mess that night, but of course scored lower. Nan was both overscored- overscored relative to Pavlova and Kupets bigtime, but underscored compared to gifts Patterson and Khorkina got most of the night.
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. But I’m don’t think his PB and HB has a chance against Mikulak being clean.
.......I don’t get how Mikulak slipped on UB. Don’t they get to check the caulk before their routine? Or is it just during the warmups?
