Happy April Fool's Day!
Tuesday April 1, 2008
 Morgan Hamm on vault Photo © Stephen Dunn / Getty Images |
The first thing that came to my mind was at the 2003 Worlds, when Morgan Hamm performed a Tsukahara 1.5 but was credited as performing a Tsukahara 2.5 (his usual vault).
There must be a million others though -- can you think of any?
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Comments
Oh funny! I think Nastia was given credit for a 3.5 instead of a 2.5 twist on floor at maybe the 2006 Nationals?
It wasn’t a big meet, but one of my teammates fell off on her beam mount and somehow the judges totally missed it! She got a 9.55 for her set, completely impossible!
I think it was Courtney McCool at Georgia all year — her beam was being credited at a 10.0 start value but really she was missing a requirement and should have only had a 9.9 SV. It was for like 5 meets!
When I did power tumbling, a girl forgot to count her skills and did 4 instead of 5 and still got a 9.8 or something equally ridiculous. A couple years later the DD judge gave me 1 tenth extra because he didn’t have the slightest idea what my 1st pass was worth.