Entertainment & Sports,
Judges and Judiciary
Aug. 4, 2012
Subjectivity in Olympic judging
The closer rule making respects this basic, underlying structure, the greater the related event's integrity.
Robert L. Bastian Jr.
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"Sometimes, when you think about running 100 meters, it's 100 meters," Ukrainian coach Yuliy Kuksenkov, frustrated with the results of the Olympic men's gymnastics team finals interjected. "Sometimes, in gymnastics, 100 meters is 95 meters, sometimes it's 105 meters."
Time for the quadrennial analysis of the subjective component of gymnastics judging, and the light it casts on law and the abstract interpretation of rules. Like Peer Gynt, we will peel off the onion's sheaves to the i...For only $95 a month (the price of 2 article purchases)
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