… but nobody does anything about it.
Bruno Grandi has done everything possible to “fight injustice in judging“, including getting rid of the perfect 10. (And adding Reference Judges.)
Yet in Women’s Artistic F.I.G. judging, they still cannot fairly rank girls on Execution scores.* Any beginner 10yr-old gymnast could have ranked the Floor finalists at World Championships 2010 more accurately.
Even with Nellie Kim phoning the Head Judges every second routine, the Bruno Grandi system still is not working.
We need more transparency.
Can we post all judges, all execution scores, for every routine at World Championships Tokyo online?
Linking routine videos to those scores, when possible?
(Realize there’s a downside, should it be possible. If any of the judges care, this will make them even more defensive, “boxing” the execution score even more than it is now. Every HIT routine will get 8.80, regardless of quality.)
* I’ll concede that the Difficulty score does rank gymnasts fairly, at least in terms of the very crude table of difficulty values.
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