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Men’s judging was terrible at the 2004 Olympics. Quite good at the 2000 Olympics.
No doubt FIG and IOC are putting pressure on the Men to NOT SCREW UP in Beijing.
Bad judges sometimes tend to let scores escalate over the day. If that happens, Germany, Korea and Romania would benefit, being in the third flight. (Romania already gets far too often the benefit of the doubt, in my opinion.)
With the new code, it’s much more difficult to over score the undeserving. Escalation of scores should be much less a problem this time than it’s been in the past.
The biggest worry for a team like the USA (first flight) is that apparatus finalists are chosen on the first day.
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