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Re: 2024 Summer Olympics (Paris)
By: muskrat Date: August 12, 2024, 7:43 am
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[quote author=acl-ny link=topic=2906.msg267943#msg267943
date=1723422342]
[member=5]muskrat[/member] - there are giant gerbil wheels in
the closing ceremony!
[/quote]
Whaaa?!!
*runs off to google giant olympic gerbil wheels *
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Re: 2024 Summer Olympics (Paris)
By: acl-ny Date: August 12, 2024, 8:15 am
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[quote author=muskrat link=topic=2906.msg267985#msg267985
date=1723466633]
[quote author=acl-ny link=topic=2906.msg267943#msg267943
date=1723422342]
[member=5]muskrat[/member] - there are giant gerbil wheels in
the closing ceremony!
[/quote]
Whaaa?!!
*runs off to google giant olympic gerbil wheels *
[/quote]
I’ll look for a video later. They had 5 rings that became the
Olympic symbol, but iinktially I just saw gerbil/hamster wheels.
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Re: 2024 Summer Olympics (Paris)
By: Rufus711 Date: August 12, 2024, 6:53 pm
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Team Australia
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Re: 2024 Summer Olympics (Paris)
By: Heron Date: August 12, 2024, 7:44 pm
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I think the Olympics should do the gracious thing, and let
Chiles keep her bronze, then give the gals who came in 4th and
5th medals, too. It's not the gymnasts' fault that the judges
messed up, and said one of the other gymnasts had stepped out,
when she hadn't.
That's probably not the way this will be handled, though. It'll
drag out for months, and leave nobody happy.
The Americans have challenged the ruling that Chiles needs to
give her medal back, saying that a coach tried to challenge the
scoring of her routine twice before the time for challenges was
up.
Le sigh.
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Re: 2024 Summer Olympics (Paris)
By: armybrat1 Date: August 13, 2024, 5:12 pm
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[quote author=Heron link=topic=2906.msg268149#msg268149
date=1723509874]
I think the Olympics should do the gracious thing, and let
Chiles keep her bronze, then give the gals who came in 4th and
5th medals, too. It's not the gymnasts' fault that the judges
messed up, and said one of the other gymnasts had stepped out,
when she hadn't.
That's probably not the way this will be handled, though. It'll
drag out for months, and leave nobody happy.
The Americans have challenged the ruling that Chiles needs to
give her medal back, saying that a coach tried to challenge the
scoring of her routine twice before the time for challenges was
up.
Le sigh.
[/quote]
The problem with letting Chiles keep the medal is, what do you
do with the official records? They're still going to say that
Barbosu was third based on the tie-breaker; the other Romanian
gymnast was fourth; and Chiles was fifth. So you get to explain
that someone got a bronze medal for finishing fifth? The scores
were different; you can't change the records to indicate a tie
when no tie existed. Well, you could, I guess, but that's an
open lie.
Besides which, Chiles already has a gold medal from the team
competition. So it's not like she needs the medal as a souvenir
or anything.
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Re: 2024 Summer Olympics (Paris)
By: armybrat1 Date: August 13, 2024, 5:16 pm
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BTW, compare gymnastics medal discussions with men's high jump.
Shelby McEwen of the US and Hamish Kerr of New Zealand flat
tied. Cleared the same height; missed the same height; same
number of missed jumps earlier in the competition. Two gold
medals? Nope. Jump it off. Kerr won; McEwen settled for a
silver. Haven't heard any complaints.
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Re: 2024 Summer Olympics (Paris)
By: MidwestmikkiJ Date: August 13, 2024, 5:26 pm
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And there is plenty of precedent for athletes having their time
and medals taken away as a result of future drug tests. So they
need to follow whatever their procedure is.
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Re: 2024 Summer Olympics (Paris)
By: LabPartner Date: August 13, 2024, 5:29 pm
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[quote author=armybrat1 link=topic=2906.msg268322#msg268322
date=1723587401]
BTW, compare gymnastics medal discussions with men's high jump.
Shelby McEwen of the US and Hamish Kerr of New Zealand flat
tied. Cleared the same height; missed the same height; same
number of missed jumps earlier in the competition. Two gold
medals? Nope. Jump it off. Kerr won; McEwen settled for a
silver. Haven't heard any complaints.
[/quote]
They could’ve had 2 gold medals. It happened in that event in
Tokyo. They chose to jump for it. Mutual decision.
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Re: 2024 Summer Olympics (Paris)
By: BethinDC2AZ Date: August 13, 2024, 6:06 pm
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It just wouldn’t be a sport if there wasn’t some outrage over a
judge call.
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Re: 2024 Summer Olympics (Paris)
By: armybrat1 Date: August 13, 2024, 7:01 pm
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[quote author=LabPartner link=topic=2906.msg268324#msg268324
date=1723588172]
[quote author=armybrat1 link=topic=2906.msg268322#msg268322
date=1723587401]
BTW, compare gymnastics medal discussions with men's high jump.
Shelby McEwen of the US and Hamish Kerr of New Zealand flat
tied. Cleared the same height; missed the same height; same
number of missed jumps earlier in the competition. Two gold
medals? Nope. Jump it off. Kerr won; McEwen settled for a
silver. Haven't heard any complaints.
[/quote]
They could’ve had 2 gold medals. It happened in that event in
Tokyo. They chose to jump for it. Mutual decision.
[/quote]
Okay, I'll be blunt. Remember that I spent about 15 years of my
life coaching/running girls' sports, and I have been a fan of
women's sports as long as I can remember. And I really don't
like the suggestions of "just pretend there was a tie and give
two or even three women bronze medals, so that nobody's feelings
get hurt." No, don't do that. If there was a tie that can't be
broken, okay - I can see multiple medals. But that wasn't the
case. There wasn't a tie for third that couldn't be broken. So
why are we talking about multiple medals?
The reference to the men's high jump was - people accept that
competitors wanted to break a tie and have a clear winner and a
second place finisher. So why are women's sports different? Why
do we have to give "participation bronze medals" so that we
don't hurt people's feelings?
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