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Old 08-11-2008, 08:56 PM   #1
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I knew that sychronized diving is lame, but I'd never had such a strongly negative reaction to it before.

Then after about 10 minutes I realized that the female commentator has a voice that is a dead ringer for Nancy Grace. Apparently that produces a deep visceral and immediate hatred. Once I realized that I kept expecting her to say "and to have a chance at taking silver they need to average 6.5 and why did you kill your wife sir?!"


And speaking of subjective judging, it just strikes me as completely broken when two judges can look at the exact same thing and one gives a 4.5 on execution, as New Zealand on China's last two dives, while the Japan judge gives 9.0 on the same dives.
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Old 08-11-2008, 09:04 PM   #2
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And speaking of subjective judging, it just strikes me as completely broken when two judges can look at the exact same thing and one gives a 4.5 on execution, as New Zealand on China's last two dives, while the Japan judge gives 9.0 on the same dives.
cos japan's just kiss-assing to become friends with China again?
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cos japan's just kiss-assing to become friends with China again?
Well, on a different dive by the Russians the New Zealand and Japan judges were switched and NZ gave 9.0 to the Russians while Japan gave 4.5 to them. Do kiwis love Russia (or maybe hate Georgia)?
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And speaking of subjective judging, it just strikes me as completely broken when two judges can look at the exact same thing and one gives a 4.5 on execution, as New Zealand on China's last two dives, while the Japan judge gives 9.0 on the same dives.
Are you sure they were grading the same diver? The 1st two scores are for one diver and the 2nd two scores are for the other diver.

It made for a HUGE disparity on a few dives.
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