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Laughing my ass off
How's this for unbiased scoring:
Some kinda mens gymnastics/acrobatics/whatever According to the commentator, the performance was ``badly flawed'' 4 judges: Judge 1 8 points Judge 2 6 points Judge 3 6 points Judge 4 2 points No prizes for guessing (a) which judge was from the competitor's home country (b) which judge has a Pocket Full of Roubles for making sure some other nation wins -- le Vent a Dos, Davey Crockett Six Day Site: http://members.rogers.com/sixday/sixday.html |
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Date: 8/16/2004 8:08 PM Eastern Daylight Time How's this for unbiased scoring: Some kinda mens gymnastics/acrobatics/whatever According to the commentator, the performance was ``badly flawed'' 4 judges: Judge 1 8 points Judge 2 6 points Judge 3 6 points Judge 4 2 points No prizes for guessing (a) which judge was from the competitor's home country (b) which judge has a Pocket Full of Roubles for making sure some other nation wins We should have a pool on which country's judges will get tossed out for scoring "sports" which are "artistic" after taking bribes, or making deals. Do they even let Korean's N or S "judge" boxing anymore? Bill C |
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No activity that requires judging should be in the Olympics. Only sports
where you finish first, go the greatest distance or wins without question, i.e., the opponent drops from fatigue, is out cold or dead. Ken wrote in message ... How's this for unbiased scoring: Some kinda mens gymnastics/acrobatics/whatever According to the commentator, the performance was ``badly flawed'' 4 judges: Judge 1 8 points Judge 2 6 points Judge 3 6 points Judge 4 2 points No prizes for guessing (a) which judge was from the competitor's home country (b) which judge has a Pocket Full of Roubles for making sure some other nation wins -- le Vent a Dos, Davey Crockett Six Day Site: http://members.rogers.com/sixday/sixday.html |
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"psycholist" wrote in message I always thought ski jumping had an interesting system. Not only do you have to throw your body 90 meters down a cliff without a parachute ... you have to come up with a certain number of style points, too. It's not a cliff. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv...icles/jump.htm Skiers are often not more than 10 feet in the air during the jump, as their flight curve follows that of the hill. Participants earn points based on distance and form. http://www.sofiendalskolen.dk/Comeni...d/urhkesk3.jpg I've actually seen this one myself! (Coincidentally, at the same stage race when the whole peloton stopped to take a leak.) |
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Carl Sundquist wrote:
"psycholist" wrote in message I always thought ski jumping had an interesting system. Not only do you have to throw your body 90 meters down a cliff without a parachute ... you have to come up with a certain number of style points, too. It's not a cliff. It just looks like one from the top. (If you visit SLC, the athlete-guided tour of the Utah Olympic Park is recommended. Don't do a self-tour of the place, pay for the real tour.) -- -- Lynn Wallace http://www.xmission.com/~lawall "We should not march into Baghdad. ... Assigning young soldiers to a fruitless hunt for a securely entrenched dictator and condemning them to fight in what would be an unwinnable urban guerilla war, it could only plunge that part of the world into ever greater instability." George Bush Sr. in his 1998 book "A World Transformed" |
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Davey_Crockett wrote:
How's this for unbiased scoring: Some kinda mens gymnastics/acrobatics/whatever According to the commentator, the performance was ``badly flawed'' Stewart Fleming wrote: The boxing is worse. Perhaps our own rbr boxing champ might even have a chance if we can muster up enough dinero to bribe the judges, although I'm not sure if the IOC would allow him to flog the fight videos even if it was for charity. |
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psycholist wrote:
I always thought ski jumping had an interesting system. Not only do you have to throw your body 90 meters down a cliff without a parachute ... you have to come up with a certain number of style points, too. Yes, indeed, Mr. Bettini ... you did cross the finish line first, but we didn't like the way you were holding your mouth up that last ascent. The judge from Portugal only gave you a 7.5 and so it looks like you get the silver medal. Do you get style points for elegance when giving your federation the finger ? |
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Donald Munro writes:
Do you get style points for elegance when giving your federation the finger ? Jeannie did, metaphorically at every chance she got. Didn't do her any harm. Why is it that every budding Power Hungry Would-Be Politico Candidate for any Office Under the Sun talks about ``WE'' whilst out Lying to the Voterz and Stuffing the Ballot Boxes to get enough votes to get Elected, and then once having got their Fat Ass firmly seated in whatever Chair/Bench/Seat they Coveted, and their Snout and both Trotterz firmly embedded into whatever Trough their Chair/Bench/Seat gives them access to, some elemental mathematical Division gets magically applied to the ``WE'' so that it becomes ``US'' and ``THEM'' ? Way to go Judith. Davey is proud of you. The ******z need somebody to shout ``Skatos'' in their ear more often. -- le Vent a Dos, Davey Crockett Six Day Site: http://members.rogers.com/sixday/sixday.html |
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Stewart Fleming wrote:
wrote: How's this for unbiased scoring: Some kinda mens gymnastics/acrobatics/whatever According to the commentator, the performance was ``badly flawed'' The boxing is worse. I found it rather disturbing to watch olympic boxing, years back. Most international boxing counts on scoring points, not so much on knocking the opponenet out. Obviously a knocked-out oppoenent is unlikely to be able to continue so they award the victory to the guy who clobbered him. For the most part it was watching finesse athelets get the **** beat out of them by american street thugs -- though Cuba usually did pretty well themselves, without sinking to the level of "must kill opponent" Who was that great cuban who never lost? Teofilo Stevenson? |
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