well what do you think
paul hamm won the all-around gold medal in mens gymnastics with 57.823 points.
kim Dae-eun (south korea) finished second .012 pts behind hamm
yang tae-young (south korea) finished third .049 pts behind hamm.
easy stuff, nothing to it right? well, what if it was discovered that judges messed up. unknowingly deducting a tenth (.1) from yang's parallel bar routine. a tenth that would have put him in first place. .051 points ahead of paul hamm. meaning paul should have been awarded the silver, and kim the bronze. judges gave yang's p-bar routine a start value (the difficulty of a routine) of 9.9. not the 10.0 that was used during the preliminaries and team competition. after reviewing the tape of the all around, federation officials "determined that yang should have been awarded a start value of a 10.0" but because the south koreans failed to lodge a protest during the event, the scoring was not changed. even though however, they did question the score, but were told by judges to wait until after the meet to file a protest letter. three judges were suspended for the mistake, including an american judge. but the score will not be changed. during a news release about the event, the federation said that the rules "do not allow for protests against judges' marks. the judges' marks have to be accepted as a final decision and cannot be changed". a gold that belongs to yang tae-young, now rests in the hands of paul hamm. how much does that take away the glory...and the amazing comeback that wasnt as incredible as everyone thought.
for more on this story, go to: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/5770606/
kim Dae-eun (south korea) finished second .012 pts behind hamm
yang tae-young (south korea) finished third .049 pts behind hamm.
easy stuff, nothing to it right? well, what if it was discovered that judges messed up. unknowingly deducting a tenth (.1) from yang's parallel bar routine. a tenth that would have put him in first place. .051 points ahead of paul hamm. meaning paul should have been awarded the silver, and kim the bronze. judges gave yang's p-bar routine a start value (the difficulty of a routine) of 9.9. not the 10.0 that was used during the preliminaries and team competition. after reviewing the tape of the all around, federation officials "determined that yang should have been awarded a start value of a 10.0" but because the south koreans failed to lodge a protest during the event, the scoring was not changed. even though however, they did question the score, but were told by judges to wait until after the meet to file a protest letter. three judges were suspended for the mistake, including an american judge. but the score will not be changed. during a news release about the event, the federation said that the rules "do not allow for protests against judges' marks. the judges' marks have to be accepted as a final decision and cannot be changed". a gold that belongs to yang tae-young, now rests in the hands of paul hamm. how much does that take away the glory...and the amazing comeback that wasnt as incredible as everyone thought.
for more on this story, go to: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/5770606/