Admiring Gymnastics From Afar is an excellent new blog (now linked under BLOGS in the right hand navigation) by Kary Kleiner from New Zealand.
Actually, Kary also has some posts on there from 2007. She’s back.
In one post she expands on the controversy at Worlds regarding the “Corridor Marking” deduction on Vault.
It sounds like WAG vault judging at Commonwealth Games in Delhi was even worse.
This vault was deducted 0.1 for being “close to the corridor line”.
This one was not deducted:
With the benefit of angle and freeze frame, it’s easy to condemn the judges.
But on podium, from the side, it’s much tougher to see what actually happened in real time.
One and all must agree that the wording “close to the corridor line” must be changed. It’s too vague.
Hopefully they’ll FIX this mistake in the rules at the Feb. 19-21st FIG WAG Technical meeting.
For more examples and videos click over to Admiring Gymnastics From Afar – My Reflections on last year: Part 2 – Judging Confusion
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Update from denn333:
in MAG, the deductions for the vault lines are the same as the deductions for FX:
-0.1: one foot or hand over the line
-0.3: more than just one foot or hand over the line
-0.5: landing outside the line
Just Another Opinion asks if there was a “line judge” at that meet?
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