Category: judging

Oklahoma now #1

Mara Titarsolej – Bars

BEST pirouette on low bar in the NCAA.

First 10 in LIU’s short history.

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Vitaliy Guimaraes 6 apparatus

No wonder coach Mark Williams is so proud of this guy.

All you can ask is that the gymnast HIT and STICK close to his best ability. Vitaliy did that. In a meet where USAG was asking for DIFFICULTY BONUS, Vitaliy won with E-score. #respect

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perfect landing – Sierra Brooks

If we had computers evaluating SAFEST landings on Vault, you should get deducted if not opening as completely as Sierra.

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Ski Jumping Judging Bias

Ski jumping competitions involve subjective evaluations by judges from different countries.

This may lead to nationalistic bias, according to which judges assign higher scores to their compatriots.

To test this claim empirically, we exploit within-performance variation of scores from all World Cup, World Championship, and Olympic Games competitions between the 2010/11 and 2016/17 seasons. (15,000 jumps)

Our findings confirm that judges assign significantly higher scores to their compatriots. The magnitude of this nationalistic bias is significantly higher in more corrupt countries.

We do not find that judges assign significantly different scores to jumpers whose compatriots are present on the judging panel. …

March 2021 – Scandinavian Journal of Economics – Nationalistic Bias among International Experts: Evidence from Professional Ski Jumping

Most biased were the Russian judges. Judges from Finland and Norway showed no bias.

Trinity 10.0 Vault

YES.

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Jade’s Floor

Very difficult to deduct.

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Haleigh Bryant – perfect Vault

The one 10.0 that nobody contests was Haleigh from last weekend.

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BUT … could it be better?

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