Tiebreakers Add New Controversy to Event Finals Day Two
Monday August 18, 2008
 The Olympic Bars Medalists Photo © Clive Brunskill / Getty Images |
On uneven bars, medal favorites Nastia Liukin and He Kexin tied for first with a 16.725, but ultimately it was He who was given gold based on the tiebreak rules, which average the execution deductions for each gymnast.
On men's vault, 2007 World Champion Leszek Blanik of Poland and France's Thomas Bouhail also tied -- with Blanik winning the tiebreak (this time, the gymnast with the highest scoring single vault), and the gold.
He told NBCOlympics.com, "For me, it's not correct. When two people arrive on the same level, they are champions. But this competition doesn't belong to us. It is the IOC's."
What do you think? Should a rule exist to break ties?
Final Results from Day Two:
Women's Bars:
1. He Kexin, China 16.725
2. Nastia Liukin, USA 16.725
3. Yang Yilin, China 16.650
Men's Rings:
1. Chen Yibing, China 16.600
2. Yang Wei, China 16.425
3. Alexander Vorobiov, Ukraine 16.325
Men's Vault:
1. Leszek Blanik, Poland, 16.537
2. Thomas Bouhail, France 16.537
3. Anton Golotsutskov, Russia 16.475
Comments
Nastia and Thomas should prtest their results! It’s absolutely not fair to break the ties. There is so much subjectiveness from the judges anyways, that if they come up with a tie, it shouls remain a tie.
The rules are dumb. Ties should get the same medal, or do another routine!
While I’m not sure it would be realistic to do another routine, I do wish there was some other way to break the tie. I like the old rules where the score from the first day carried over too. That was from 1984 I think.
That was absolute B.S….the commentators of the show actually revealed using slow motion/replay that nastia made fewere mistakes than the chinese girl. do the judges not think to do that as well when there is tie?? this is the OLYMPICS..you would think they have more fair measurements installed in
casese of uncertainty, obviously not. That is
just total crap…Nastia should’ve won b/c she
actually did peform better with less mistakes.
The tie breaker was so unfair. I think that if both gymnasts deserved the same score then they deserve the same meadal. The way the break the tie is unfair because they use the scores from different judges so one judge could think something completely different then the other. They need to either give them both gold or come up with a better way to break a tie.