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Sooner or later Baseball will use #RobotUmps rather than human beings when deciding whether a pitch was a strike.
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A machine called Hawk-Eye decides whether Tennis serves are in or out.
Trampoline uses both technology and human judges to decide score. I’m looking forward to Artistic Gymnastics doing the same.
No triple salto vaults (forward or backward) will be permitted for value in the 2017-2020 Code
of Points.
Good decision. Especially in comparison with WTC – still encouraging badly performed and dangerous double salto vaults for women.
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Elena is the 1980 Olympic Champion. Coached Kristina Vaculik to the 2012 Olympics. And judged Floor in Rio.
And she was recently elected to FIG WTC.
related – Amanda Turner – Padurariu, Canada Dominate Olympic Hopes Cup
A few examples:
• 3 flying flairs upgraded from a C to a D.
• Split leap fwd (leg separation 180°), upgraded from an A to a B.
• Split jump (leg separation 180°) from cross position, upgraded from an A to a B.
• Straddle pike jump (both legs above horizontal), or side split jump from cross position, upgraded from an A to a B.
• Walkover bwd, with support of one arm, upgraded from an A to a B.
• Free (aerial) cartwheel into salto bwd tucked, upgraded from a D to an E.
related – Beam Skills Which Got Downgraded And Which Are No Longer In 2017-2020 CoP
NBC anchor Tim Daggett in London:
“We have our own little scoring reference,” Daggett explained several times throughout the Olympic competition, “1.2 deductions or less, [the score is] green; it’s a go score. It’s great. Then there’s cautionary… And then there’s red, and that is obviously bad.”
Elizabeth Stranahan – Pushing perfection: Exploring activity systems through elite gymnastics scoring (PDF)
In that thesis Stranahan weighs the pros and cons of NBC trying to simplify the new (2006) Olympic Gymnastics scoring.
Personally, I like it.
When I next saw Tim I made a point of telling him that the colour code truly does help the general public. The very worst thing about the Code change was losing the marketing value of “Nadia’s perfect 10.0.
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Lauren Hopkins posted the best summary I’ve read.
… 48 women will qualify on teams, at least 34 women and as many as 46 women will qualify as individual all-arounders, and at least 4 women and as many as 16 women will qualify as event specialists. …
ASSuming the new FIG Executive and Technical Committees don’t tinker with the qualification system, a real possibility.
Despite the complexity, I much prefer this to what we had for Rio.
