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USA refuses to accept defeat, keeps making excuses
Replies: 33Last Post Aug. 21, 2008 8:11pm by Midnight Frost
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Sins and Demons


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All i know is that chinese girl is not 16, its just not possible. Plus who complains when they win, imagine Phelps saying being pissed hes got the most gold medals.

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4:24 am on Aug. 20, 2008 | Joined: Dec. 2006 | Days Active: 446
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Quote: from scalywag66 at 2:38 pm on Aug. 19, 2008

Maybe I'm over analyzing this, but IMO it's more evidence of America's prideful attitude

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this article shows how some sports shouldnt count because of the judging. These sports have been around for a while in the olympics so just because USA is loosing in the gold medal standings you can take it out??  

the chinese gymnast won gold yesterday because she won the tiebreaker ove a USA gymnast and the NBC announcers couldnt accept defeat they kept raving about how the tie breaker is incorrect blah blah blah. WHO CARES JUST ACCEPT DEFEAT the judges would know more about gymnastics than them so they need to respect the other gymnast because she won fairly

also, why didnt they argue the micheal phelps race because it also looked like a tie between him and the othe swimmer from serbia.

I bet if USA was leading in the gold medal race you wouldnt find any complaints with judging


There were several cases where the judges clearly made mistakes (whether on purpose or accidental) in the scoring.

Of course we wouldn't find any complaints if we hadn't one. That doesn't make the complaints unlegit though.


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OodleNoodle


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Quote: from Sins and Demons at 4:24 am on Aug. 20, 2008

All i know is that chinese girl is not 16, its just not possible. Plus who complains when they win, imagine Phelps saying being pissed hes got the most gold medals.

They don't have to be 16 yet. They have to be 16 the year OF the Olympics. So they technically could be born up until 11:59 on December 31st.

Also, it's competely speculative. You don't know anything. Just because she looks young doesn't mean she is. Shawn Johnson looks about 12. I know people who are 27 and 34, respectively, and they look 18 and 20. Not to mention Chelsey Memmel.

Asians also tend to look younger than they are, I find.

Until there's proof, don't go around spreading rumours. It's slander.


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Midnight Frost


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Well, some sports will always have subjective judging. Gymnastics, diving and the like - it's unavoidable.

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