An Uninformed Male's Opinion of Women's All-Around Gymnastics

So I've been staying up late every night watchign the Olympics. I don't care what sport is on, it's just fun to watch.

Last night was the women's gymnastics all-around competition, and the judges were doing everything in their power to keep the American's off the podium. It was ridiculous how biased the scores were toward the Chinese girls (and I do me "girls"...they must be like 13 years old).

The same things were going on in the men's competition, but I don't care about them.

Nastia Liukin was absolutely incredible. Not only was she the most technically proficient gymnast out there, she was much more graceful and elegant than any of the others as well (yeah, I said it). As much as the judges wanted to, they could only hold her down for so long. The phrase "don't leave it up to the judges" fits here. She was just too perfect for them to find any deductions.

Yang Yilin of China could have done the running man across the balance beam and gotten a near-perfect score.

At one point one of the directors of the judges association stomped down to the judges table and said something very angrily. I can only imagine it was something like "Stop trying to weight the scores! Everyone sees what you're doing, and I do NOT want a scandal on my hands".

In other news, the British team sprint team rode a 42.95 second 3-lap effort. In the finals, Jamie Staff rode a 17.1 second opening lap to give the Brits the gold medal. Absolutely incredible.