Why don’t you tell us what you think can fix what is wrong and how to do it.
I have but you don’t seem interested, nor with the opinions of other athletes and analysts. Earlier you even said that none of us know how to fix the system. Now you also dismiss their opinions as “they weren’t judging using the COP.” The entire point is the COP is very flawed and people don’t think it is representing gymnastics very well. Most of them understand the COP well enough to know why it is flawed, they don’t need to write every little detail on twitter or on air (there isn’t time for that anyway).
if the argument is “well she should have won by 2 tenths instead of 4 tenths”… then really haven’t you got anything better to do with your life?
Very hypocritical. You spend more time than anyone scoring routines and complaining when it doesn’t match up with what you had. You complained people weren’t talking about the D-panel getting Andrade’s AA score wrong by .1, when that is a far smaller issue and when it’s not a judged decision anyway, just a mistake with cv being added.
When someone is overscored by .2-.3 on every apparatus in a competition, that makes a huge difference. Even on a single apparatus it matters, especially in an event final. You seem to be waving it off it because you’re a Jess fanboy.
Just because it didn’t change the medal in the EF this time (although it did in the AA), doesn’t mean it isn’t important. It
could have made a difference and actually still may have. When you’re competing against someone who seems to be getting special treatment, it can throw your own game off, and give them more confidence. Judged sports have a particularly high psychological component and if you see someone scoring a certain number, you might think it’s necessary to increase your difficulty to match it.
The way the Gogean was judged between Jess and Jordan is a perfect example. Jess should not have been credited, yet she was. You complained about Jordan trying that skill for finals while ignoring Jess’ mistake. A likely scenario is Jordan saw Jess’ floor routine in the AA scoring 14.4 with a short Gogean and thought “well if that’s how the judges are scoring it, I’ll have to do it too.” But it turns out the judges weren’t scoring it like that for everyone. Just for a specific person.
There was also no “British fix” in the AA - Alice is also British!
She was overscored in this competition too. It should be noted though, the way politics often works is one person is held up as that country’s “push”.
I don’t think there was necessarily a huge campaign to overscore the Brits, but I do think their top 2 were given gifts in the judging, on top of Jess being someone who has been getting overrated to begin with. It’s been argued her wildly overscored 14.6 floor at Nationals “is just national scoring”, but those things can have impact. People in the sport talk and judges tend to follow trends.
BTW, it’s a strawman to bring up random people on Twitter “attacking” Jess. That has nothing to do with other issues and is a weak attempt to invalidate very real concerns, by trying to make her look like a victim. This strawman has become common in all kinds of discourse these days and needs to stop; Twitter is such an easy scapegoat.
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