… have I mentioned how much I love this guy? 🙂
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Perfect toe point. Wonderful line. … (I’ve promised to stop complaining about him.)
OK. Most experts don’t agree with this decision. Here’s the slightly more detailed scores.
full results (PDF)
Zou Kai won because the judges awarded him the highest start score 7.70.
Zhang from China had the second highest start score 7.60. And finished second.
Other guys have more exciting routines — but lower starts. Since Men’s judges will only give Uchimura 9.033, and yet give Zou Kai 8.741, difficulty decides the medals.
If you feel there should be a greater difference between those execution scores, take it up with the guys that put those number to paper:
HUANG Liping (CHN) – Horizontal Bar Supervisor
Execution Judges:
DOBROVOLSKYI Edvard (UKR)
POP Augustin (ROU)
KELEMEN Zoltan (HUN)
MITEV Dimitar (BUL)
ROCHA Joao (POR)
… Look. Horizontal Bar rules are screwed up. They need revised from the ground up. The best guys in the world do either boring routines, repetitive routines or routines with 4 similar skills. The FIG rules are to blame.
Routines were “better” in 2004 than they are today.
When are Stoica and his committee going to do something about it?
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