Regarding DI Jordan- Yes, there were other factors at work besides what I mentioned. The scoring was inexcusably slow, as were the wait periods. Am I saying the U.S. wins if China doesn't have pre-pubescents? NO. All I'm saying is that it is ridiculous for anyone to predict any outcome, of any competition, particularly gymnastics, when a big variable has been changed. Big chance the U.S. still wisn silver, but the key word is chance. It doesn't matter- cheating is cheating. Everyone on here hating on the U.S. team is just reprehensible. No, they did not perform their best, but I guarantee you no one on this website- myself included- can do the high level skills they can.
As a gymnast, both collegiate and club, for the past 12 years, there is no way in hell those girls are 16. And it's about as easy to forge something in a totalitarian regime like China as it is to forge a gym class note in an American high school. Someone made an ignorant comment that the Chinese would have won anyway. What kind of moron are you? 1) MANY of their girls are under 16, not just one 2) How can anyone say what would have happened and 3) we lost by 2.3 points, which, if Sacramone doesn't fall and Johnson and Liukin don't step out of bounds on floor, we come close to making up. They could have been rattled by the Chinese- no excuse, they choked- but I'm saying had the Chinese performed differently, i.e, without 13 year olds, the U.S. MIGHT have performed differently. This isn't about China-hating, it's about what's fair. A full investigation should be done, and if China is found to have cheated- which they did- their gold medal should be stripped. It won't happen, though. The IOC has turned a blind eye to so much shit from the Chinese they're going to keep doing it.
Yes, there were other factors at work besides what I mentioned. The scoring was inexcusably slow, as were the wait periods. Am I saying the U.S. wins if China doesn't have pre-pubescents? NO. All I'm saying is that it is ridiculous for anyone to predict any outcome, of any competition, particularly gymnastics, when a big variable has been changed. Big chance the U.S. still wisn silver, but the key word is chance. It doesn't matter- cheating is cheating. Everyone on here hating on the U.S. team is just reprehensible. No, they did not perform their best, but I guarantee you no one on this website- myself included- can do the high level skills they can.