Should she have won the Gold?  

Hi Tamara - yes, I really think that Nastia should have won the gold metal. I believe that she definitely did a better job overall. Maybe the news channels will show a repeat of part of their performances so you can see it too.

Hi subha12 - From what the news channels were reporting, there are specific rules in place that determine what should be done in a tied score and from those rules it came that the other athlete was the winner overall.

The tie breaker rule that caused her not to get Gold was a slight decution in her difficulty rating as she did not fullfill the full difficulty that she had supposedly done.
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I agree with you.

I agree too youless... they are all winners and champions in my book. I am sure the judges have certain criteria that they base their final decisions on, even when it is a supposed tie. Sometimes it just seems unfair to those of us watching on TV, like you said. Silver and bronze medals are wonderful too. Even just making it onto the olympic team is a great honor for anyone from any country in the world. They are all amazing!

No, i don't think so .Nastia is great, but chinese player has done well.
As to why the Gold metal was given to Miss KeJing , speaking fairs ,is the
quality of the reason of the action.
May it be ,europe and U.S athletes are charming, but qulity is all.

I think Nastia's performance looked much better and it was definitely of the highest quality but I guess we are not the judges and cannot make that determination, unfortunately.

I agree with you too ellie333 - I believe some of the judges were biased, like you said. I also agree that some of the athletes did not look as old as they say they were, but I guess we will probably never know the truth. You are right about races being much easier to determine who wins because it only matters who crosses the finish line first basically. Gymnastics is definitely a much more difficult and complicated event to score.

It is amazing how much more difficult the gymnastics of today's olympians are than years ago too. Triple this and double that... I can't believe some of the things they do on the floor, beam, uneven bars, etc. They are all amazing.

Very true Tallymommy - it is hard not to get upset but you are right about rules being rules and the judges use a certain system that they have in place just for cases like this (ties). Unfortunately, for us watching on TV it just doesn't seem fair sometimes.

Yes lucy02 - It would have been nice to see them both receive a Gold metal.

Yep it was a lower start value.

I guess the start value was lower. It is hard for people watching on TV to understand, even myself, because we see how amazingly these girls perform no matter what the difficulty and sometimes that can make it seem to us that somebody else should have won. The judges look for specific things that we do not see as we are not trained professionals of the sport. But, either way, sometimes it doesn't seem fair.

I agree Dawn - I think they need a better system for determining the winner, especially in a tie.