Update. Sarah sends a link to a VIDEO from another angle that shows the GO sign lit green. Krisztián does not see it. Waits on the announcer. That’s why it took him more than 30 seconds to mount.
As a judge I would not have taken the 0.3 deduction.
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This routine would have been Gold. Except that Krisztián was penalized 0.3 for not starting his routine within 30 seconds of being signalled.
He certainly starts well within 30 seconds of giving salute.
Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.
Hungary protested twice. Appeal denied.
Seems bogus to me. There was no intention to delay the competition so far as I can see.
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Not familiar with the rules. Are the rules very clear, and he should have known, or unclear? Anyway, that was beautiful, and I hope knowing in his heart he was that best will console him. Makes me also feel bad for the #2 guy bumped up, kind of a tarnished win.
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Hi
if you watch this video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6qYfxkap2Fo you can clearly see the GO sign already lit at the beginning of the video (bottom right corner) and the seconds counting down. The video is at 5 seconds when the clock is down 5 so it looks like he didn’t put his hands on the pommel until 31 seconds and started at 35.
I took a screen shot of the video at 30 seconds and he still has his arms up in the air and is no where near touching the pommel horse. I really think your comment about it being bogus is uncalled for and should be amended. It was obviously incredibly close. A bad mistake on Berki’s part and it cost him very dear.
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Thanks Sarah. I do see the GO. It is green.
I guess Berki really did screw up by waiting until the announcer called him.
OR somebody clicked the GO sign early.
Delay wasn’t intentional. Men’s judges often decide NOT to enforce a rule due to extenuating circumstances … even if WAG doesn’t. I’m still not sure what to think.
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I absolutely disagree with Sarah. They should not, under any circumstances, be giving the GO sign that far prior to the announcer introducing the gymnast. It is obviously distracting to hear your name being announced and one would have to wait until that had been completed to take a breath, focus, approach the apparatus, and begin. Berki did nothing to delay the competition intentionally. The fault is with the judges and they should take responsibility. If the sport has been boiled down to this kind of rule to worry about (while the judges can take forever to return a score) we’re in trouble. Absolutely bogus.
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His mistake is thinking the announcer is more important than the judges. The judges are the ones who count! It is such a shame what a lovely routine. I also feel sorry for the girls who get 0 for vaulting before the green light. I have seen that several times. Hard lesson to learn.
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I get that “rules are rules”, but “once upon a time” there was the concept of “mitigation”…wouldn’t it be great if at some point we got back to putting the right gymnasts in rank order rather than the inflexibility of evaluating angles and ignoring everything else?
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