controversy at World Gymnastics Championships

If you live for the drama, there were plenty of drama queens in Rotterdam.

Personally I like the discipline displayed, in general, by the American girls. No matter what goes wrong, you fight back tears. You respect your competitors. You respect the sport.

It’s bad sportsmanship to make a display of yourself, off the apparatus.

If underscored, you shake the hand of the victor, and congratulate.

I was shocked all week at lack of discipline shown by the Russian girls. I guarantee you that the boss, Rodienenko, hates this stuff. He’s benched gymnasts his entire career for any one of the dozen nonsense moments we’ve seen out of Nabieva.

Just when we should be celebrating that Russia is back, instead there’s a backlash. Check Couch Gymnast’s post – MORE RUSSIAN HISTRIONICS….OR JUST PLAIN RUDE?

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More controversy …

Once again, the judging of the E panel sucks.

Andy Thorton weighs in … The Floor final:

… a perfect example of the problem in women’s judging today. If we take out Afanasyeva, every other E-score of the final was between 8.883 and 9.1 – not nearly enough to reflect the true differences in the landings (Izbasa’s 0.8 penalty is in a different category) …

The judges “box” the scores to be sure they are not out of range.

Ferrari’s E score should have been several tenths higher than anyone else. But the judges are too gutless to throw a high number.

On Beam:

… of the gymnasts who hit, the E-scores ranged from 8.6 to 8.966 …

Same thing.

Andy has more. Zonderland’s stupid great Horizontal Bar routine, included.

American Gymnast – Event Finals Day 2 Filled With Controversy…

Worst of all, Tandori Chicken got interviewed by Gymnastike. A foul fowl.